I had a nightmare. In it, Larry David, the Seinfeld writer reputedly worth $400 million, invited me to dinner at…
editor’s note: The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg recently published an article describing how Trump administration officials somehow included him on…
It is quite possible to be well read and completely stupid. They are not incompatible. But, as a sociologist, let…
We started 2024 using more pronouns than there are characters in the Chinese logograph system, with the imminent threat of…
My relationship with drones oscillates between two states: hatred and extreme hatred. I consider that drone shooting should be an…
If you have had even the slightest exposure to baseball news this month, then you undoubtedly have heard about the…
It’s increasingly difficult to understand why any straight white male could remain a Democrat. Happily, there are fewer of these…
“What my father said about businessmen applies to liberals,” said the late Robert F. Kennedy Sr. “They’re sons of bitches.”…
Simply defined, meritocracy is an economic and political system where people achieve their positions based on merit. Merit is ascertained…
