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Motherhood Lasts Forever. Plus. . .
When the Pulitzer Prize meant something. Charles Koch on his biggest mistakes. Two drinks with the queen of crime writing. Buying a new face in Asia…
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Back When the Pulitzer Meant Something
In the years before winning the Pulitzer became an exercise in ideological performance, writers like Jimmy Breslin captured the nation’s soul.
Liel Leibovitz
He Survived South Korea Skincare Hell
Plus: hanging out with Sergey Brin’s ‘MAGA girlfriend.’ Who was the worst-dressed at the Met Gala? And more!
Suzy Weiss
Two Drinks with. . . Patricia Cornwell, the Queen of Forensic Crime Thrillers
At the age of 24, long before she became a famous writer, Cornwell began work on her first book. I talked with her about the mentor whose biography she…
Zac Bissonnette
Would You Travel to Korea for a New Face? Ben Kawaller Did.
Korean facials for $5,000, how ‘gay’ became ‘queer,’ and Met Gala madness—on this episode of ‘Second Thought.’
Suzy Weiss
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How Disneyland Remade American Politics
Orange County had almost no history of its own. It turned out to be the perfect place to invent America’s.
Beverly Gage
The Inversion of ‘Animal Farm’
Andy Serkis’s new animated adaptation of George Orwell’s classic inverts the point of the book to score shallow political points. It’s also just a…
Nicholas Clairmont
A Casino? Not in My Town!
Plus: Two drinks with Lloyd Blankfein, whose reaction to gunshots at the WHCD was to ask his neighbor: You gonna eat that? Kat Rosenfield on Michael…
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Plato’s Cave and the Rise of the Highly Educated Radical
Professors have taught generations of students to reduce individuals to the flat abstractions of identity groups, politics to zero-sum relations of…
Jacob Howland
Two Drinks with. . . Lloyd Blankfein
Drinking coffee from a C-SPAN mug, the former Goldman Sachs boss weighs in on AI, the advantages of disadvantage, Y2K, and the drama at the White House…
Suzy Weiss
The Truth About Reality TV—from the Woman Who Built It
Plus: Why dudes still rock. Michael Jackson’s ‘second family’ takes a turn. And more!
Suzy Weiss
Was Michael Jackson Bad?
Audiences are loving the controversial new biopic ‘Michael’—for the same reason audiences loved the man himself. We want a good show.
Kat Rosenfield
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