Caitlin Flanagan

4 weeks ago | afr.com | Caitlin Flanagan

Caitlin FlanaganMar 27, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? There’s a saying – or maybe a truism – that the test of any new technology lies in its ability to reproduce pornography. Long ago, pornography was the stuff of private collections: crude figurines and drawings that spread their influence only as far as they could be carried.

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Caitlin Flanagan

There’s a saying—or maybe a truism—that the test of any new technology lies in its ability to reproduce pornography. Long ago, pornography was the stuff of private collections: crude figurines and drawings that spread their influence only as far as they could be carried. But man could not live in this wilderness forever. He had opposable thumbs and pressing needs, and thus were born woodblock printing, engraving, movable type, daguerreotype, halftone printing, photography, the moving image.

Jan 24, 2025 | theatlantic.com | Caitlin Flanagan

It is not unusual for clerics to address their leaders directly. King James regularly caught hell from the pulpit. So when Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde went for the king, at the end of an interminable sermon on Tuesday morning in the National Cathedral, she was acting within an established tradition. She was also operating within another well-known tradition, the “Where did everybody go?” confusion within her church regarding its sharply declining membership.

Jan 20, 2025 | msn.com | Caitlin Flanagan

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Jan 20, 2025 | businessandamerica.com | Caitlin Flanagan

No constitutional scholar or judge has ever questioned the American right to skip a spouse’s annoying work thing. Has anyone ever had a good time at one of these horrible events? You’re clutching your little plastic cup of wine (Sheila knows so much about wine!) while you get shuffled along like an oddity—Look, it’s Mike’s wife! Nobody wants to talk with you, and you don’t want to talk with them. They want to drink wine and talk about work, and you want to drink wine and watch Severance.