The Met’s Problem Was Always Bigger Than John Galliano

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s announcement this week that it is canceling next year’s exhibition on the fashion of John Galliano perhaps shouldn’t have come as a surprise. From the…

Why the Flock Backlash Has Gotten So Intense

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The Singularity Is Not What It Seems

Source: YouTube Summary One evening in early August, Sam Stowers and several neighbors packed into an apartment near San Francisco’s Alamo Square and pondered the beginning of the end.Stowers and…

The Guard That Won’t Be Changing

Many Democrats of a certain age took the same message from the party’s 2024 debacle: Voters are sick of the old guard and craving younger, more aggressive leaders. Better to…

What Howard Zinn Got Wrong

“What would Howard say?” This question, which Dave Zirin reports being “asked repeatedly” while he was working on his new biography of Howard Zinn, underscores how unusual a figure his…

Pied-à-Temper-Tantrum

If you were trying to identify the spiciest policy affecting the fewest Americans, you’d struggle to do better than New York City’s pied-à-terre tax. This spring, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and…

The Absurdity of New York City’s Pied-à-Terre Tax

New York City’s new pied-à-terre tax provokes strong opinions. Supporters argue that the nation’s first tax on luxury second homes will help balance the city’s budget and improve “a fundamentally…

Trump Meant It Literally When He Said He Was Taking the Oil

“We’re going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground,” Donald Trump said when he announced the capture of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in…

The Backlash Against Polyester Has Gone Too Far

Lately, the men of the internet who are obsessed with self-optimization have found a new fixation: their underwear. Many standard pairs use polyester or spandex, or sometimes both. What are…

Trump’s Hatred of Free Speech Is Intensifying

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