CULTURE

Grocery Shopping with My Dead Dad

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“The Terminal,” by Rick Barot

“They stand next to him, in a posture of awkward confession, carefully giving him the words.” Source link

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Why Ehud Olmert Thinks His Country Is Committing War Crimes

Last week, Ehud Olmert, a former Prime Minister of Israel, publicly denounced his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the war Netanyahu…

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The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard

Around midnight on April 16, 2025, after Chen Zimo learned that the Department of Homeland Security had threatened to revoke…

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How to Think About COVID-19 Vaccines in the Era of R.F.K., Jr.

On Tuesday, in a fifty-eight-second video posted on X, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services,…

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Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral

The internet—it seemed like such a good idea at the time. Under conditions of informational poverty, our ancestors had no…

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A Tumultuous Spring Semester Finally Comes to a Close

On a morning in May, Mordecai Johnson, the president of Howard University, testified before a congressional subcommittee about the prevalence…

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Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber Star in a Pair of Psychosexual Slugfests

“The new wine has burst the old bottles,” the playwright August Strindberg wrote, in a bullish preface to his 1888…

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“Last Exit,” by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

“Yesterday bleeds in the rearview mirror / As tomorrow’s fires fan out everywhere.” Source link

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The Real Audience for Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Spectacles

Last May, the United Kingdom’s Home Office posted footage that showed immigration officers going door to door and marching migrants…

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