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How Sports Became Our Civic Religion
And why poor, deindustrialized towns produce the most passionate fans.
Shilo Brooks
50M
Her Son Was Kidnapped and Killed by Hamas. This Is Her Story.
Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s son was abducted by Hamas, held for 328 days, and then killed. She is thankful she had the chance to fight for him.
Rafaela Siewert
47M
I Thought I Was Autistic. I Was Wrong. Plus . . .
Meet the ‘chief MAHA officer’ of Steak ’n Shake. Is it okay to ditch your friend for doing weight-loss jabs? Kat Rosenfield on the sickness of Lena…
The Free Press
What’s So Bad About Fame?
Plus: Can you dump a friend for shooting up weight-loss drugs? I asked Claudia Oshry of ‘The Toast.’
Suzy Weiss
Introduction to Gazology
A new literary genre refashions the ruins of Gaza into a dark political parable with a familiar villain.
Matti Friedman
Why I Co-Authored a Book with ChatGPT
My new book is the first major work of nonfiction listing a human and AI as co-authors. It will not be the last.
Jamie Metzl
The Ancient Jewish Wisdom Behind a $5 Billion Company
Daniel Lubetzky of ‘Shark Tank’ talks about ‘Pirkei Avot.’
Shilo Brooks
51M
Letter to the Editor re: ‘I Wrote a Book About Censorship. Then People Tried to Censor It.’
My response to Jacob Siegel’s piece in ‘The Free Press.’
Renée DiResta
The Death of the Pocket Paperback
As the distributors retire the pocket paperback, we are reminded of what we lose when the printed page goes too.
Andrew Cusack
I Went to See ‘The Drama’ with My Friend Who Survived a School Shooting
Plus: Why is everyone obsessed with Belle Burden’s divorce memoir?
Suzy Weiss
Neal Stephenson on AI, Rome, and How Civilizations Decline
Why the prophetic sci-fi author looks to ancient Rome to understand the future.
Shilo Brooks
47M
Coleman Hughes: What Ibram X. Kendi Doesn’t Admit
In his new book, America's most famous anti-racist calls politicians who support border control ‘neo-Nazis’ and puts scare quotes around ‘crisis’ when…
Coleman Hughes
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