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• David Rieff foretells the fate of woke
• The New York Times' 'Creamy, Spicy Tomato Beans' has gone viral. Here's why
• Why Castlecore and Romantasy Have Had Such Staying Power
• The Last Showgirl is beautiful, tasteful – and tedious
• Combs lawyer Anthony Ricco withdraws from Combs' defense team
• But Wait! There’s More: How Infomercials Paved the Way for Influencers to Thrive
• Betty White will be honored with a Forever stamp in Los Angeles on March 27
• Yellowjackets Had Already Jumped the Shark. Then Came This Episode.
• Is there something more at play when it comes to dumping human waste on farmland?
• Review: A sci-fi exploration of a shadowy government
• Review: A novel about walls, both literal and figurative
• Sparta's Splendid Isolationism – Scott Yenor
• Digital 'prisons' offer greater levels of convenience at the expense of privacy, security, and autonomy
• How Emilia Pérez sabotaged its own Oscars campaign
• Sam Fender is the UK’s first politicised blue-collar solo rock act
• Ilana Gritzewsky, who spent 55 days in captivity in Gaza, says a part of her never returned home
• Kamala Harris is ready to cash in on her calamitous time in the White House
• A musical about late-country legend Loretta Lynn’s life is in the works with Sutton Foster to play her
• Amazon MGM Studios will take creative control of the James Bond franchise
• 'Malcolm in the Middle' reboot will feature a 'nonbinary' character. Here's why
• Should We Skip Touring the White House?
• Jack Reacher is a mountain of a man, with hands like supermarket chickens or Thanksgiving turkeys. How will he defeat Paulie?
• Netflix’s Zero Day, a six-episode miniseries about the aftermath of a deadly cyberattack, plays like a window into an alternate reality
• Problematic Age Gap discourse is back – but we need more nuanced understandings of power dynamics | Rebecca Shaw
• Sam Francis, who died 20 years ago, was a gifted conservative thinker
• Meghan Markle’s latest maneuver is an insult to actual lifestyle gurus like Martha Stewart and Joanna Gaines
• David Blaine is on the hunt for sickos in new series: ‘I’m inspired by the impossible’
• Hurricane, the most decorated K-9 in U.S. history, has died
• Lissa Evans: “Being in the sea is like being cradled by a benign goddess”
• The Thames and I, on and off the page
• Meghan Markle is rebranding her lifestyle brand before launching a single product
• From Sophy Roberts to Bettina Anton: new books reviewed in short
• An ode to female friendships
• Rapper A$AP Rocky found not guilty in his felony assault trial
• Mickalene Thomas’s ode to Black joy
• US Fish and Wildlife Service has halted critical conservation funding
• James Murdoch has spilled the beans, and the reality is more miserable than we – or Succession – ever imagined | Zoe Williams
• Palantir CEO Alex Karp says people should forget everything they learned in college about the way the world works
• The chances of a building-sized asteroid hitting the Earth in 2032 have risen multiple times since it was first detected
• Rand Paul Suggests DOGE Help Audit Fort Knox Gold Reserves
• "I'm suffering:" Holiday massacre of federal workforce Is a rude awakening for rural westerners
• Brady Corbet says he hasn't made any money on 'The Brutalist'
• Julianne Moore claims the Department of Defense has banned her children's book 'Freckleface Strawberry' from schools
• James Blunt live: a nostalgia karaoke
• Zoe Saldaa became flustered and started swearing upon realizing her speech at the BAFTAs was coming to an end
• How much creative destruction is enough in a Bond vs. Trump battle?
• Another case of demand for racism exceeding supply
• Eminem’s lyrics are sometimes outrageous, but they can just as often be thoughtful and introspective
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s triumphant return
• Trump should help save the SS United States - Washington Examiner
• Live From New York — It’s Liberal Media - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Musk Goes for the Gold - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Becoming Led Zeppelin Soars Like a Helium Balloon - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Australian art has long depicted outlaws, Khaled Sabsabi’s critics should remember. Let’s start with Ned Kelly | Ella Barclay
• 'Goonies 2' is officially in the works with Steven Spielberg producing
• Here are the best moments from SNL50: The Anniversary Special
• Tom Hanks played a racist Trump supporter on SNL's 50th anniversary special
• What Happened to Gabby Petito? An Unsettling New Netflix Documentary Attempts to Answer.
• Thrill-seeking made me feel alive – until the day I hurtled down a volcano on a mountain bike | Gary Nunn
• Ryan Lucas Henderson’s West from the Fallen Wall captures the daily lives of soldiers and civilians in post-Cold War Europe
• I wrote the script for the growing, yet limited, number of independent anti-woke producers now giving audiences what they want
• Jonathan Roumie on how faith helped get him cast as Jesus Christ on ‘The Chosen: Last Supper’
• The Weekend Spectator Ep. 30: Affordable Eggs and Marriage Decline - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Houellebecq’s Annihilation: an unlikely antidote to nihilism
• How to do it: I’m a cisgendered bi woman and my fantasies are about being a man with a female partner. Is this a kink? — Stoya
• The White Lotus Keeps Falling Into the Same Trap
• I love my boyfriend because of his traditional, hardworking, loyal mindset. How could I judge his beliefs when they are just another culture’s way of thinking?
• How can I help my husband mourn the loss of his mistress? —Naked Neighbor
• Make the Kennedy Center Honors Great Again
• Jules Verne predicted Trump’s Golden Age of America, but he was no green
• Remnants of the Ash Wednesday bushfire now live with me, and are a haunting connection to that time
• The Tunnel of Fudge is a legendary, a mystery, the Lost Ark of midcentury baking. Until now
• ’40 Acres and a Mule’ briefly created a Black utopia. It became a wealthy white enclave.
• The New Captain America Has an Odd Message for Our Political Moment
• I was with Salman Rushdie when he was stabbed. The ‘reader effect’ saved us
• Trigger warnings don’t help PTSD, but they do a lot to raise people’s expectations | Kate Maltby
• The Triumph Of Nashville Music City charts a middle way that is palatable to broad swathes of normal Americans
• Renée Zellweger returns as Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
• The Spectacle Ep. 192: While Eagles Soar High at the LIX Super Bowl, Woke Soars Low - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Issa Rae has backed out of performing at The Kennedy Center after Trump became chairman of the board
• Starbucks’ Valentine’s Day Drinks Are an Insult to Coffee Lovers. We Can Do Better, and I Know Where to Look.
• Love is a deep and profound concept, says Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
• This Oscar Season’s Great Underdog Story Is the Story of a Cat
• Lawsuit over New Hampshire donut mural heads to trial
• Megyn Kelly says Blake Lively has 'ruined' her reputation in Hollywood
• This writer's favorite restaurant is Asia Roma, an inexplicable Italian-Chinese fusion joint in Chinatown that serves gut-destroying lychee martinis
• I’m Still Here: a powerful story of the human spirit under dictatorship
• Netflix breaks silence on the controversy over 'Emilia Pérez' star Karla Sofa Gascn’s social media posts
• The National Catholic Prayer Breakfast partners with Hallow, a popular prayer app
• The Theists Strike Back – Rachel Lu
• Scandalous Monogamy and Faithful Infidelity
• This article marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the last printed Peanuts comic strip
• American Letters Will Endure the End of “BookTok” – Michael Lucchese
• Now That I’ve Left: Is it stupid to refuse to forgive someone?
• Trump’s education secretary nominee, Linda McMahon, has been slammed for a ‘thin resume’ on education. Here’s why
• There seems to be a growing number of young people who’ve lost sight of the real thing because all they’ve ever seen is its commercialized imposter
• Review: Questlove’s new documentary, Sly Lives! is terrific, smart, and stylish
• Shonda Rhimes resigns from Kennedy Center board after Trump becomes chairman
• With the new Yes or No: Dating & Relationships Expansion Pack, you can finally cut through the nonsense and discover the truth about modern dating
• 'Captain America: Brave New World' gets some of the worst reviews of any Marvel film to date