Category Culture

How Elon Musk Rebranded Trump

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story By the end of Donald Trump’s campaign for a second Presidency, he was part of a package deal. The Trump ticket represented not only Trump and his running mate, J. D.…

Do You Have Hope?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Life in America is deeply anxious. Where are we headed? How bad could it get? Who are we, anyway? What’s particularly scary is that everyone’s scared. Even the people whose candidate…

Pope Francis, the Cardinals, and “Conclave”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The new movie “Conclave,” faithfully adapted from Robert Harris’s 2016 novel, tells the story of a vexed papal election by depicting the Vatican of melodramatic legend: dark corridors, footfalls, sotto-voce conversations;…

Restaurant Review: Bridges

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. The walls in the dining room at Bridges…

Into the Phones of Teens

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story About midway through “Social Studies,” Lauren Greenfield’s new five-part FX docuseries about teens and their relationship to social media, we see one of the show’s protagonists—an eighteen-year-old University of Arizona freshman…

The Feminist Critic Who Kept Flaubert on His Toes

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Madame Bovary, c’est moi. The phrase, often attributed to Gustave Flaubert, may be better known than any line in his novels. But many scholars consider the remark to be apocryphal. It…