A broadside against Matt Yglesias on Twitter/X a couple of days ago caught my attention. There is, of course, nothing unusual about Yglesias getting attacked—or Yglesias attacking others—on the ...

The pro-Israel Democratic voter should be very worried. If one of their candidates doesn’t win or come especially close to ...

A few days ago, Michelle Goldberg, the New York Times columnist, wrote about the challenge of her child’s application process for New York City public high schools. “New York has an almost purely ...

Democratic socialism is ascendant for now, and media outlets are dedicating far more time to covering the phenomenon. The New Yorker’s Benjamin Wallace-Wells just published a large piece about the ...

“Saw a ‘Mx.’ the other day and the first BIPOC sighting in a year. Are we back?” the writer Jay Caspian Kang asked on X a few days ago. His post was a response to Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, who ...

Once in a while, I find myself catching a Bari Weiss news cycle. Given the enormous amount of consolidation in media and the power she now wields as David Ellison’s mogul, that’s not very hard. He has ...

I’ve got a new essay in Jacobin on the state of literary publishing, the male novelist, and the curious resurgence of Lonesome Dove. Have a read. It’s not surprising, in the present day, the ...

Come next year, Hakeem Jeffries, barring incredibly unforeseen circumstances, will be the speaker of the House of Representatives. This will make him highly influential and much more famous than he is ...

Like many in the literary world, I read, with great interest, Naomi Kanakia’s recent exegesis on the “little” magazines like the Partisan Review and their various descendants, including n+1, The Drift ...

Where do you go in America today? Anywhere, of course, but the question seems harder to answer. What made this country great, and still does, is its vastness—the reservoir of languages, cultures, and ...

I wrote several thousand words on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez potentially running for president and a few readers were surprised I specifically didn’t reference the fact that she’d be vying to become the ...