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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Rachael Larimore |Jonah Goldberg |Samuel Kronen
Warren Cole Smith joins Michael Reneau to discuss the recent closure of the Justice Department ... Published March 23, 2025 Warren Cole Smith joins Michael Reneau to discuss the recent closure of the Justice Department investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention regarding sex abuse allegations.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Samuel Kronen |Jessica Wilson |Nick Catoggio
Intellectual earworms, stand-up comedy, and chinchilla farms. Published March 22, 2025 Join Jonah Goldberg on a journey up the Northeast Regional line as he ruminates upon the impeachment of federal judges, the enemy within, the world’s laziest Congress, and the chicken and the egg game for oligarchs and plutocrats. Plus: disturbing DOGE casualties and a greatest hits reel of Jonah’s analogies.
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2 months ago | 
quillette.com | Susie Linfield |Samuel Kronen |Jonathan Rauch |Jonathan Kay
A review of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart, 172 pages (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, January 2025)In Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, Peter Beinart urges Jewsâpleads with Jewsâto reconnect to our tradition of universalist justice as articulated in the Bible and the Talmud.
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2 months ago | 
quillette.com | Samuel Kronen |Jonathan Rauch |Jonathan Kay |Marilyn Simon
Before American musician Marshall Mathers made a name for himself as the global cultural sensation Eminem, he was already a gifted lyricist and wordsmith on the Detroit underground scene. “I’ve been writing lyrics since I was like fourteen years old,” he explained at a press conference some years ago, “and just the more I wrote the better I kept getting at it.” His lyrics are sometimes outrageous, but they can just as often be thoughtful and introspective.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Cole Murphy |Christian Gonzalez |Christian González |Luis Parrales |Samuel Kronen
Of the two Batman spin-offs from this fall, only one offered a compelling villain. Published November 9, 2024 Since 2008’s Iron Man overtook the entertainment world, superhero blockbusters and TV hits have taken over theaters and living rooms alike. But a new trend for these movies and shows has cropped up in 2024, with mixed results: focusing not on superheroes but on their foes.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Claire Lehmann |Kevin Mims |John Lloyd |Samuel Kronen
On election day, I caught the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Sitting across from me an elderly woman wore a t-shirt with the image of Trump pumping his fist in the air with the words “fight, fight.” A small "I Voted" sticker was pressed onto her lapel. She sat with an easy confidence. There were no disapproving glances from other passengers. There was no tension. No conflict.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Kevin Mims |John Lloyd |Samuel Kronen |Greg Koabel
Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney’s debut novel, was published in 1984 and thus celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year. If you are under sixty years of age, this probably doesn’t mean much to you, but by the time McInerney’s book arrived, literary fiction had been in the doldrums for most of the late 1970s and early 1980s. That period is fascinatingly documented in Dan Sinykin’s recent book, Big Fiction.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
quillette.com | John Lloyd |Samuel Kronen |Greg Koabel |Josh Feldman
Europe now faces the possibility of war in a way it has not since 1945. The Balkan wars of the 1990s were brutal but containable, even if the cost of containment was many thousands of dead and an uneasy cold peace that left the belligerents frozen in hostility. The ongoing war in Ukraine, the growing possibility of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, and the fighting in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, however, all threaten to escape the containment now sought by the US and become total war.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Samuel Kronen |John Lloyd |Greg Koabel |Josh Feldman
They seem to have the idea that millions of people around the world want nothing more in life than to lie in bed and fulfill their “sick role” and that they don’t want to get better. It’s kind of an extraordinary notion. ~public-health journalist David Tuller In recent years, I’ve grown weary of a certain style of cultural criticism that’s come into vogue, especially online since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Luis Parrales |Samuel Kronen |Sean Keeley |Nick Ripatrazone
No, the show’s third season isn’t aimless. Published July 13, 2024 In early 1904, the Irish novelist James Joyce—at that time a decade away from his first major publication—submitted a short story to the literary magazine Dana. It wasn’t meant to be.
