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Endless Shuffle
Mood Machine:The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfectby liz pellyatria/one signal, 288 pages, $28.99…
How Disney Killed Snow White
Disney’s live action version of Snow White, a spectacular flop at the box office, continues to get…
Snow What?
The editors discuss the live-action Snow White, Disney’s biggest flop in recent memory. Did the star hijack…
Adolescence Is Unrealistic
The fictional Netflix drama series Adolescence is making TV ratings history in the U.K. Jamie Miller, a…
Radical Disembodiment
Super Bowl ads are a great American art form. Paying eight million dollars or more for a…
The Pitfalls of Making America “Hot” Again
Over the last four years, a refrain in the MAGA movement gave hope to those recoiling from…
In Search of Turkish Delight
In a final scene of Dorothy Sayers’s 1930 novel Strong Poison, a murderer devours a large quantity…
The Mixed Message of Anora
Screenwriter and director Sean Baker’s Anora won four Oscars at the 2025 Academy Awards, including Best Director,…
Woke vs. The Left
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. David Rieff joins in…
Don’t Count On It
Things don’t turn out as we expect. People don’t either. Take friendship as an example, or perhaps…
Oscars and the Oval Office
The editors discuss last week’s incident in the Oval Office, and what it might portend for American…
Red Hulk, Blue Politics
The real protagonist of Captain America: Brave New World—the fourth in the franchise, if you’re keeping score—isn’t…
A Guide to the Oscars
Who even watches the Oscars?” said First Things editor R. R. Reno when I proposed to write…
Super Bowls and Bad Samaritans
The editors discuss Super Bowl 59—why we watched, who tried to rig the outcome, and what Taylor…
I Hate the Chiefs
In real life, I’m a gentle soul—easygoing, tolerant, deferential, emotionally steady with a tilt toward whimsical joviality.…
