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Who Needs God When There’s the Grateful Dead?
Teenagers need something to worship. In the ’80s, it was the Grateful Dead. What is there now?
Larissa Phillips
A Man Should Know: How to Be a Friend
In our lives, each of us will be blessed with a few great friends. When you recognize one of these people, take good care of that relationship, no…
Elliot Ackerman
The Death of ‘Teen Vogue’ Was Inevitable
Reading the magazine, which folded this week, is like stepping back in time—into an era when white women were Karens and the phrase ‘non-prostate owner…
Kat Rosenfield
Progressives Can’t Bear Pregnancy
If you believe bodily autonomy is the most important thing, then yes: Having a child is ‘absurd.’
Kara Kennedy
Rebecca Okrent: It’s Never Too Late to Make a Friend
The 75-year-old poet discusses retirement homes, intergenerational connection, and finding community at any age.
Suzy Weiss
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A Man Should Know: How to Introduce Himself
How do you help today’s boys become tomorrow’s good men? You start with the basics.
Elliot Ackerman
The Straight-Male Case for Pilates
It is inescapably associated with ladies in Lycra, but guys: It’s not a bad workout.
Will Rahn
The Cruelty of the TikTok Prank
What used to be a harmless joke has become a mutant strain of content—humiliating, dangerous, morally unmoored, and effortless.
Sascha Seinfeld
Bill Gates Has Finally Admitted That Climate Doomerism Is a Mistake
The billionaire who helped normalize climate panic now concedes what ‘deniers’ said all along: We can adapt, and the obsession with carbon has come at a…
Lucy Biggers
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We Are the Slop
They say my generation is wasting our lives watching mindless entertainment. But it’s worse than that: We’re not just consuming slop—we’re turning our…
Freya India
Lou Ureneck on the Healing Power of Nature
The 74-year-old explains how going into the woods connected him to his family, brought him closer to God, and became his best medicine.
Suzy Weiss
28M
Chris Christie: Bruce Springsteen Has Done It Again
‘Deliver Me from Nowhere,’ the Boss’s biopic, is like his best work: By being unexpected, it makes you really feel things.
Chris Christie
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