Rules
Story Stream
I Avoided Going Inside Target for Years January 09, 2025
I’m not sure how much I believe in New Year’s resolutions. I believe you change your life in every moment, with every unconscious decision, and waiting for a future date like the first of the year to instate a desired new habit can be the kind of hes...
How to Storm and Save an Ivory Tower January 07, 2025
Not until quite recently did American colleges cease being free expression zones. After University of Chicago professor Allan Bloom sounded the alarm with his bestselling The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and...
The Pop Girls Ruled 2024 January 02, 2025
The Year of the Pop Girl got started early. Between March and June, the roster of veteran pop artists who released albums included Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, and Kacey Musgraves. Around that time, ascen...
What We’re Reading to Start the New Year January 02, 2025
Last July, during the British general election in which the Labour Party ousted the long-ruling Conservative government in a landslide, I picked up “The Line of Beauty,” by Alan Hollinghurst, which I’d somehow neglected to read in the two decades sin...
