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The Handmaid's Tale Is No Longer Fiction—Welcome to the Brave New MAGA World of Trad Wives and State Fecundity
Back in 2021, Margaret Atwood came on the show to give her dark take on the American future. Four years later, Atwood’s prescience, particularly in h…
11 months ago
From Pigeons to Polyamory: A New Yorker Cartoonist's Fix For American Loneliness
How to fix today’s epidemic of loneliness? For the New Yorker cartoonist and author Sophie Lucido Johnson, the answer involves both pigeons and polya…
11 months ago
How Lawyers Created a Can't Do America: The Tragedy of Too Many Laws and Not Enough Innovation
Lawyers usually like the law. The more the better. But in addition to his life as a top corporate lawyer, Philip K. Howard has made a second career o…
11 months ago
Enstatification Over Enshittification: America as the New China
My neologism-du-jour is “enstatification”. It’s what is happening in MAGA America with Trump’s Gaucho-style swaggering into the economy and his reve…
11 months, 1 week ago
Six Books, One Story: The Closing of the American Century
One big story captures all six books selected by the Financial Times for their short list of best business books of 2025. As the FT’s Senior Business…
11 months, 1 week ago
Women Lie Too: A Smug San Francisco Intellectual Cross-Examines a Fearlessly Authentic Florida Psychologist
We all have our roles. I’m the smug San Francisco intellectual and the Orlando-based Dr Chloe Carmichael is the fearlessly authentic psychologist. Sh…
11 months, 1 week ago
Beyond the New Deal: How the Left Must Reinvent Itself in a Populist Age
A week is a long time in American politics. I did this interview with Alex Zakaras last week, before the midterms and Trump’s slide in the polls. But…
11 months, 1 week ago
Why Tech Billionaires Are So Angry: Elon Musk and the Gilded Rage of Silicon Valley
If money is supposed to make you happy, then why do tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen seem so miserably angry? That’s…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Bell Curve Author Takes God Seriously: But What if God Doesn't Take Him Seriously?
Bell Curve author joins the intellectual mob (Peter Thiel, Jordan Peterson, Ross Douthat et al) and finds God
Charles Murray, the infamous co-author o…
11 months, 1 week ago
Dignity Has Never Been Photographed: More Balkan Ghosts for our Indignant Times
Lea Ypi’s new book about her Greek-Albanian grandmother is a philosophical meditation on dignity, a history of Ottoman collapse and Balkan nationalis…
11 months, 1 week ago