A recurring late night bit is now central to our professional culture.
The Ayn Rand of the British Empire's war criminal class.
A.I. influencers are creepy. What if they're also smart and sincere?
Never kink-shame the head of HR.
The flacks pushing Devil Wears Prada 2 didn’t really get the first one.
We're not really monogamists. We're romantic institutionalists.
It’s something we do. Let's be proud of it.
In defense of being too much (or not quite assimilating).
Why resolving to read more fiction may not be such a good idea.
Luxury goods aren't what they used to be, but timepieces still tell a story.
The New Yorker and the big business of getting non-readers to hate you.
Why ditching the metropolex feels so damn good (for now).
Zoning is about curation. Curation is attention. Attentions is about what you choose to ignore.
Without historical continuity, classic Americana is to preppy clothing as Disney World is to Bavarian castles.
Man, we really don't like ourselves.
Free speech matters. Paid speech might matter just as much.
Interior decorating isn't just about turning a house into a home. It's about turning a home into a social certification. But things can go badly awry.
The original upwardly mobile professionals subdivided their homes to impress the neighbors. Now they bemoan the villas in the subdivision down the street.
For people with no time on their hands, getting dirt under their fingernails is a way of reclaiming the land they already own. Also, making pesto.
As ambitious people start to make money, they go all in on non-fiction. As they start to have money, they go searching for more human stories.
For members of the productive professional class, anything that isn't optimized can feel like an indulgence. It's why friction feels like warmth.
As the American frontier closed, violence became entwined with ambition. Why would it be any different in the NIMBY-filled suburbs?
When everything is optimized, friction feels like warmth.
True status symbols aren’t about communicating wealth. They're about choosing a team and implying that you're the captain.
