I wrote for the .com culture site in its heyday. I don't mourn its disappearance.
"It's not really a movement. Nobody is pushing it. People are just living it."
Popular podcasts and shows portray crime as salacious and sexy, failing ordinary victims in the process.
Popular podcasts and shows portray crime as salacious and sexy, failing ordinary victims in the process.
While the FDA keeps experimental treatments out of reach, the spoonie world makes a diagnosis into an identity.
Social media, streaming, and a new era of digital self-censorship
The movement's net caught a lot of men like writer Junot Diaz—ordinary jerks rather than formidable serial predators.
Overzealous gatekeeping on race and gender is killing books before they're published—or even written.
Politicians evade responsibility when they make civilians enforce mask and vaccine mandates.
How a generation was redpilled by a nerd power fantasy about defining yourself in the digital age
Publishing in the post-Trump era is going to involve a lot of score-settling.
Like the Hays Code and Waldorf Statement before it, new diversity requirements are Tinseltown's way of asserting cultural dominance through self-policing.
They'll probably do more to lock out indie filmmakers than to advance real inclusion.
