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We’ve Lost the Plot
Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.
How everything became entertainment, activist short sellers, the French panic over le wokisme, and a nuclear-power reboot. Plus living with disability, a path forward for Republicans, Salman Rushdie, swearing, Gatsby, new fiction, and more.
Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.
Carson Block uses covert techniques to uncover fraud for profit. Now he’s under investigation himself. Is he the hero of Wall Street, or the villain?
The nation’s vehement rejection of identity politics made me recalibrate my own views about woke ideology.
It’s not environmentalists—it’s the nuclear-power industry itself.
On living with cerebral palsy
A short story
It’s why the party keeps losing elections.
Photographs that capture traces of American industry, class divides, and westward expansion
F. Scott Fitzgerald never explicitly states Jay Gatsby’s race.
His enchanting new novel is a triumph.
Americans disparaged the British as arsonists. But the rebels fought with fire too.
Censored and then forgotten, Anatoly Kuznetsov’s Babi Yar, about the Nazi occupation of Kyiv, is again painfully relevant.
Readers respond to our December 2022 cover story and more.
A well-turned curse can remind you of the power of language.