Last week, Riyadh hosted a comedy festival. I did not attend—let’s call it limited funds. After all, this is the […]
I can’t exactly recall when I watched my last movie on VHS, but the cassette tape once defined my childhood. For kids of the 1980s and 1990s, videotapes were currency—expensive objects that you treasured, rewound, and wore out.
In this week’s best-of roundup, we think about Rainer Maria Rilke, the ontology of God, and Italian pop music from the 1970s.
The first time I really knew about NPR was when I was dating someone in college, and they wanted to listen to All Things Considered when we were driving, and I was like, what the fuck is this?
I chose back in June to make sure I remained present and engaged with this inglorious moment by listening exclusively to newly released music. Here is an overview of 2025’s Summer vibes.
After I graduated from college in 1987, I took a job at East Hill Farm and School, an alternative school located on a mountain top farm in southern Vermont.
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.