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What Do Young People Really Want? The Suburbs.
A steady job, a simple house, and a quiet life used to sound like hell to many young people. Now the old American dream is back.
Russ Greene
Tear Down This Museum! Plus. . .
Suzy Weiss on Ariana Grande. How Ted Lasso became hollow. The Nobel laureate who’d buy your kidney. The man who quit working in finance and bought a…
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The Joyless Return of ‘Ted Lasso’
The show’s newest season replaces real character complexity, depth, and heart with big, sweeping political statements that stir progressive pundits and…
Liel Leibovitz
Should I Get a Gun?
I’ve opposed them for most of my life. But right now, I’m considering getting a handgun.
Larissa Phillips
Local News Is Dying. This 25-Year-Old Bought His Hometown Paper Anyway.
Two weeks ago, Evan Newton purchased a local paper in Georgia. He has three employees and a dream.
Frannie Block
Why Do Famous Women Make Us Mad?
Plus: Meet the Manhattan socialite who sips luxury whiskey and calls her fellow millionaires ‘cheaters’ for avoiding New York taxes.
Suzy Weiss
New York’s Last Socialite Isn’t Going Down Without a Fight
Julie Macklowe’s public support of the pied-à-terre tax has gotten her ‘dirty looks at parties in the Hamptons,’ but the millionaire is nonplussed…
Suzy Weiss
Glen Hansard Made Music Feel Alive
The musician, who died this week at 56, understood that music is not something you spin up on a hard drive. Real music, like real love, is something you…
Spencer Klavan
Sophie Cunningham’s Common Sense
When the basketball player said, ‘Young girls in sport shouldn’t have to go against biological men,’ the mainstream media shrugged. How far we’ve come.
Kat Rosenfield
Coleman Hughes: The Case Against Sports Betting
Sports gambling scandals used to be a rarity. But thanks to the new era of frictionless betting they’re becoming commonplace, harming the integrity of…
Coleman Hughes
America Needs a New Kind of Public Intellectual
Now that trust has shifted from institutions to individuals, who you trust matters more than ever. The voices worth following are defined by what they…
Aaron Renn
Why You Should Start a Business in Your 20s. Plus . . .
Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ isn’t woke after all. Joseph Epstein says ‘Catcher in the Rye’ is ‘far from rereadable.’ The book that changed how we…
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