Since the novel coronavirus first showed up in America in January 2020, the U.S. government has routinely impeded scientists, public health officials, and citizens from coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. Early on, the surgeon general admonished Americans for buying masks. As late as last August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was downplaying […]
If advocates of “wokeness,” “critical race theory,” and “anti-racism” seem to be acting like religious zealots who must crush all heretics, that’s because they are, argued Columbia University linguist John McWhorter at a 2018 debate at the Soho Forum. “Anti-racism as currently configured has gone a long way from what used to be considered intelligent […]
In 1987, just two years before the collapse of the Berlin Wall would usher in the beginning of what Francis Fukuyama would later call the end of history, the rock band Guns N’ Roses released Appetite for Destruction, an album that would go on to become the best-selling debut L.P. in the history of rock […]
When Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts of killing George Floyd, it was a victory not just for justice but for free speech—a freedom currently threatened by a bipartisan coalition of federal legislators. That’s the compelling argument made by Michael Socolow, a communications and journalism professor at the University of […]
Jane Coaston is the new host of The Argument, a massively popular New York Times podcast that seeks to host civil and informed discussions about the most pressing issues of the day. A 33-year-old Cincinnati native, Coaston has worked at Vox, MTV, and the Human Rights Campaign, among other places. She’s the daughter of a […]
“The goal of this book is to explain why we keep falling for the ideas that psychologists tell us about the ways they’re going to help fix society,” says Jesse Singal, author of The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills. “They’ll offer some incredible new way to fight racism or to […]
Do you remember the “power pose” craze from about a decade ago? In the second-most popular TED talk ever, psychologist Amy Cuddy has told over 60 million viewers that they can change their lives by simply changing their body language. If you grew up in the 1990s, you probably experienced classes devoted to boosting your […]
Last December, Andrew Gruel had finally had enough. He’s the founder and owner of Slapfish, a growing seafood chain based in Huntington Beach, California, with restaurants in 10 states and the United Kingdom. The past eight months had been so brutal for business that he and his wife set up a fund to pay laid-off […]
Chef Andrew Gruel just might be the patron saint of restaurateurs, small-business owners, and service workers during the pandemic. He’s the founder and owner of Slapfish, a growing national fast-casual restaurant chain based in Huntington Beach, California. He’s a widely recognized culinary innovator and familiar face on the Food Network and other cooking channels. Over […]
In a famous 2005 commencement speech, Apple’s Steve Jobs counseled graduates to “stay hungry, stay foolish.” He was quoting Stewart Brand, a man who has been called “the intellectual Johnny Appleseed of the counterculture” and is the subject of the new documentary We Are As Gods, co-directed by David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg. Born in […]