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The academics have a word for it: “commensality.” It describes the practice that determines who eats with whom at the table—who has a place, who doesn’t have a place, and how, instinctively and traditionally, the rules and rituals of sharing…
“Westworld,” for all of its shiny, futuristic technology—its dazzling computer screens, whirring machinery, and clever robots—has been, through its second season, which ended on Sunday night, a show about guns, that simplest and cruellest of human tools. The characters are…
Mayo and Tyrone have avoided each other in the draw for the third round of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship qualifiers. The Westerners have been paired with Kildare, while Tyrone will take on Ulster rivals Cavan. Mayo were five-point winners…
Summer is here, and with more hours under the hot sun come anxieties about burning, peeling, wrinkles, and, worst of all, skin cancer. There’s good reason for this: Over the past 30 years, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation, “more…
The summer primary season continues on Tuesday, June 26, with voters in New York, Utah, Oklahoma, Maryland, and Colorado heading to the polls. South Carolina and Mississippi will also hold runoffs for races that were too close to definitively call…
Anthony Kennedy, the longest-serving member of the Supreme Court, is reportedly considering retirement. Kennedy has, since at least 2005, been the swing vote on many of the Court’s most ideologically charged decisions, responsible for 5-4 rulings that legalized same-sex marriage,…
