Is the Democratic Party Still Too Woke?
Jason Zengerle on Adam Jentleson, the president of Searchlight Institute and the author of “Supermajority,” whose views have shifted to…
September 2026
admin In “The Sun Never Sets,” Joe Swanberg Strips Romance to Its Bones
Richard Brody writes about the filmmaker’s first feature in six years, which turns a love triangle in Anchorage into a…
Can You Write a Memoir in the Third Person?
Hua Hsu reviews Brian Dillon’s memoir, “Ambivalence: An Education,” in which the author’s younger self is depicted as an inscrutable,…
Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a…
Remembrance of September 11th
Adam Gopnik writes on September 11th, 2001, and the influence of the terrorism attacks on New York City.
Have Conservatives Taken Sexy Back?
With Evie magazine, “Barstool conservatism,” Christian podcasts such as “The Naked Marriage,” and lingerie lines like Sydney Sweeney’s SYRN, the…
Can East Germany’s Cold War History Explain the Rise of the AfD?
Isaac Chotiner interviews the historian Katja Hoyer about the roots of the AfD’s success and what the history of East…
The Warning Benjamin Netanyahu Ignored
Ruth Margalit writes about revelations, in Haaretz, that the Prime Minister of Israel knew about the attacks of October 7th…
Instructions for Watching My Girlfriend While I’m Out of Town
Blythe Roberson writes humorously from the perspective of a boyfriend looking to get a girlfriend-sitter for his partner: Blythe’s favorite…
The Prolific Storytelling of This Is Lorelei
Nate Amos writes songs that both embrace and lampoon dusty singer-songwriter tropes. Amanda Petrusich reports.