The Fallout of a Charlie Kirk Campus Scandal
Students and faculty across the country were punished for their actions in the wake of the conservative activist’s murder. Benjamin…
September 2026
admin Is Trump’s Latest Press Attack Just Another Distraction?
Jon Allsop reports on the perilous next steps after CNN, Politico, and MSNOW were barred from the White House, and,…
Annie Dillard’s Subject Was the Whole World
Robert Baird remembers the writer Annie Dillard, who died last week, at eighty-one.
Some Ways A.I. Might Do It
Zach Zimmerman writes a humorous list of ways that A.I. might destroy the human race.
How the Absence of Shame Weakens Democracy
Jay Caspian Kang on the loss of productive shame as a social force in the era of social media.
Even Ed Sheeran’s Apology Took Both Sides
Naaman Zhou on attending an Ed Sheeran concert, in Philadelphia, shortly after Sheeran’s tour dropped Macklemore from its lineup for…
The Unknowable Miley Cyrus
Amanda Petrusich writes that, on Miley Cyrus’s new album, “Bass Persuades,” the constantly changing artist disappears onto the dance floor.
The Lost Descendants of Thomas Jefferson
Julian Lucas on the recent confirmation, using advances in DNA sequencing, that the third President of the United States had…
Why I Free-Solo El Capitan
Shouts & Murmurs by Mike O’Brien: When some of you asked if I’d record my thoughts as I hang by…
Inside Shaq’s League of Dunkers
The basketball legend’s dunking tournament launched this summer, with a clear star—a twenty-seven-year-old poetry lover named Mac McClung. Charles Bethea…