What Does Judaism Look Like Without Zionism?

I reviewed @mollycrabapple.bsky.social 's terrific new history of the Bund — a great read but more importantly, a book that could not have arrived at a more urgent moment. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/b...

Pop Culture Got Stale. Counterculture Went Right-Wing.

You can trace a faint line from trucker hats and skinny jeans to the Groypers.

Read the brilliant @jenszalai.bsky.social's review essay on @wdavidmarx.bsky.social's new book

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...

The Next Privacy Battleground Is Inside Your Brain

Can universal human rights protect your brain from Elon Musk's implants or do we need something else ... or is it too late?

The latest from the brilliant Linda Kinstler:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/m...

Why Corporate America Is Caving to Trump

Why are so many business leaders caving to Donald Trump? Because of the collapse of "the establishment," which had many good consequences and at least one dubious one: corporate America is no longer very good at collective action. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

The Cost of Performing Childhood for Your Parent’s Art

The inimitable Parul Sehgal on the the reckoning that is now underway: The child art star speaks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/m...

Revenge of the Followers

What do Mehdi Hasan, Andrew Tate, and Bonnie Blue have in common? They all participate in the fan gangbang, an uncannily literal evolution of the parasocial style that defines modern life online
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/s...

How the Democrats Became the Party That Brings Pencils to a Knife Fight

Jia Lynn Yang on how the Democratic Party forgot how to do politics

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...

How Empathy Became a Threat

I wrote about something that's contested nowadays: empathy.

The Death and Life of the Straight White Man’s Novel

I wish only I could have made room for Father John Misty's "I'm Writing a Novel." But I wrote about novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

Must read! An in-depth look at the Heritage Foundation's detailed plan to criminalize and suppress the Palestine solidarity movement in the United States, now being put into action by the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...