Pop Culture
Lamar’s lament
Good art doesn’t have to be politically correct
Hot sauce
Lil Nas X is the greatest show in the world right now
Class viewing
The contrast between the lives of the boxers in “Fight School” and those portrayed in “Anatomy of A Scandal” could not be sharper
The last weird decade
We have lost the oddness of the 1990s
Watching alone
How the internet killed pop culture
Lana chameleon
Pitchfork was one of a whole ecosystem of taste-making blogs which laid claim to being the ones who had made del Rey
The last Everly brother
Don Everly’s death officially marks the day the music died
Trapped in a gilded cage
Women’s rights are far more precarious than we have been led to believe
Television tome that needs tuning
The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth
The pain gain
In today’s pop world trauma is an asset
Godfather of British geopolitics
The revolutionary global thinking of an Edwardian academic continues to shape attitudes today
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
SEEN should be heard
A new group aims to remind the police to act without fear or favour
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
The only way is up
It’s narrow, man, a narrow path to victory
The female body is the new short skirt
What is being done to some female bodies is changing what all female bodies mean
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Michael Gove’s new definition of “extremism” is extremely silly
We cannot define such a vague term with such vague terms
