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The Death of the Summer Job
When I was a teenager, the end of school meant it was time to get to work. Summers spent busing tables were more transformative than a trip to Europe.
Larissa Phillips
Don’t Blame the Girlboss for the Falling Birth Rate
The recent drop in fertility has nothing to do with career women. But a different cohort is having many fewer children.
Patrick T. Brown
Why AI (Probably) Won’t Take Your Job
Doomsayers and tech accelerationists miss how automation makes us richer.
Charles Fain Lehman
Things Worth Remembering: Friction Makes Life Worth Living
Technology promises to alleviate every inconvenience. But as Kurt Vonnegut said in 1995, aren’t the annoyances we’re racing to erase the very things…
Josh Kaplan
Things Worth Remembering: Elvis Costello Brought Poetry to Life
What a shame that conventional wisdom deems most poetry inaccessible. And what a beautiful thing that music so often proves that belief wrong.
Peter Richmond
Things Worth Remembering: The Dirty Little Secret of Ambition
The late Norman Podhoretz put words to my ambition long before I ever could.
Joe Nocera
Have American Institutions Become Overly Feminized?
Helen Andrews says that wokeness and cancel culture are a byproduct of ‘the great feminization.’ Is she right? Seven women discuss.
The Editors
How to Keep Your Soul in a Corporate Job
Corporate life didn’t collapse. We just lost faith in it. Workers are staying for the paycheck, while creating real value elsewhere.
Alex McCann
The Most Ordinary Town in America
Our phones say the country’s on fire. But all over, in towns like Michigan City, Indiana, people are still clocking in at work, flying flags in their…
Chris Arnade
I Work for a Big Life—Not Big Dollars
Our culture sells us on the idea that we live to be entertained—and that discomfort should be avoided at all costs. My farm gives the lie to all of…
Tara Couture
The Autoworkers Want Their Union Back
A surge in white-collar membership has caused a leftward lurch in the UAW’s politics and a collision with its blue-collar base.
Frannie Block
I Tried Wall Street’s Famous Brain Drugs
My experimental high and crash through the not-quite-legal, sort of effective, occasionally heart-pounding medicine cabinet of Wall Street and Silicon…
Park MacDougald
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