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Ideas
noticing
Nov. 19, 2024
Tired of Trying to Be Interesting? Join the Dull Club. Dullness is for these members a bland blanket, a respite from an increasingly oversaturated, overprogrammed, over-whatevered world.
health
July 16, 2024
Ten People on Finding Out They Have the Alzheimer’s Gene 23andMe can test you for your genetic predisposition to lose your mind. Would you want to know?
ideas
Mar. 11, 2024
The Right to Change Sex The moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies.
ideas
Nov. 8, 2023
Do Democrats Need to Get Less ‘Globalist?’ A new book argues that Democrats must embrace economic nationalism to win back the working class.
ideas
Sept. 18, 2023
The Nerd Trying to Turn the GOP Populist Oren Cass’s quest to make Republicans heed the interests of their working-class base.
the media
Mar. 28, 2022
Compact Magazine Makes a Strong Case for Liberalism With enemies like this, liberalism needs no flatterers.
technology
Nov. 30, 2021
A Normie’s Guide to Becoming a Crypto Person How to (cautiously and skeptically) fall down the rabbit hole.
ideas
Nov. 9, 2021
David Graeber’s Possible Worlds The author of Debt and The Dawn of Everything left behind countless admirers and an abiding belief that society could be changed for the better.
business
Oct. 26, 2021
The Soft Sell of Hims Can the health-care brand leverage young men’s anxiety over erections and hair loss into a multibillion-dollar empire?
ideas
June 13, 2021
The Delusions of the Radical Centrist Why Michael Lind’s iconoclastic brand of populist politics fails to convince.
ideas
Mar. 10, 2021
Social Workers Instead of Police? Denver’s 911 Experiment Is a Promising Start Six months into a pilot program that deploys squads of caregivers in place of cops, there are signs of success.
ideas
Sept. 9, 2020
How Fantasy Triumphed Over Reality in American Politics That doesn’t mean that the nation is on the verge of collapse, or even in decline. A new phase of history might be just beginning.
Mar. 11, 2016
Will ‘Trumpism’ Take Over the GOP? Trump isn’t saying much of substance right now. But that doesn’t mean an infrastructure might not pop up to help him fill in the blanks.