Diana Ross, Simone Weil, and our beloved Scaramucci go head to head in this week’s round-up of reading recommendations.

In a time of goblin mode, we think about C.S. Lewis, Christian apologetics, and Nancy Fraser.

Where Trump and Epstein are concerned, the dog that didn’t bark won’t shut the fuck up.

Ari Aster’s new film reminds us that there’s something actually worse than the present.

Media technologies offer the promise of both eternity and oblivion, but we have a hard time telling the difference between the two.

Cults and multilevel marketing schemes are more American than apple pie, it turns out.