Sarah Jones

New York

Senior Writer, Intelligencer at New York Magazine

Senior writer, @Intelligencer/@NYmag. Member, @NYGuild. Writing DISPOSABLE for @AvidReaderPress.

Articles

The World Doesn't Need More Elon Musk Babies

1 week ago | nymag.com | Sarah Jones

Elon Musk may not have appeared at the Natal Conference in Austin, Texas, this year, but he didn't have to. The very concept of pronatalism owes its current prominence to him and his obsession with fertility.
How New Age Women Turned Right

2 weeks ago | nymag.com | Sarah Jones

Amy Carlson wanted to be special. She tried astrology, and she tried men - angry, violent, useless men. One held a knife to her throat, which forced her to get a restraining order. One fathered her first child, but the relationship didn't last. She married another man and gave birth to a daughter, and yet she was still restless. In 2005 she got divorced, and she delivered her last child, Aidan, the same year. That's when she saw the archangel Michael.
Then They Came for People With Disabilities

3 weeks ago | nymag.com | Sarah Jones

In 1959, a teenage Kitty Cone was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. The daughter of a well-off military family, she discovered that her disability often worked against her family's wealth and political connections. She attended five different high schools, including the posh Holton-Arms School where her cousins had to carry her up the stairs so she could attend classes.
Masculinity Will Not Save Men

1 month ago | nymag.com | Sarah Jones

American men and boys are in trouble, we are told. The internet is replete with tales of controlling husbands and boyfriends who neglect their hygiene and play video games all day. The stories aren't purely anecdotal; the data suggest there is a crisis.
Andrea Dworkin Saw Trump's Female Enablers 40 Years Ago

1 month ago | nymag.com | Sarah Jones

The path to women's liberation has always been blocked by other women. Before Amy Coney Barrett rose to the Supreme Court or Marjorie Dannenfelser began her war on legal abortion, there was Phyllis Schlafly, that self-styled paragon of wifely submission, and Anita Bryant, the unrepentant homophobe. In Right-Wing Women, the late feminist writer Andrea Dworkin skewered them and the culture of male violence they served.
Disposable by Sarah Jones Explores How the Healthcare System Prioritizes Profit Over Human Life

1 month ago | teenvogue.com | Sarah Jones

In December 2024, a masked gunman shot and killed UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson in the streets of New York City. The murder roiled the internet. Although most social media users agreed that nothing could justify murder, the crime ignited a furious public debate about health insurance companies like United. For most Americans, private health insurance is a fact of life. You go to the doctor, and someone asks you for your insurance information before anyone takes a look at you.
Disposable by Sarah Jones Explores How the Healthcare System Prioritizes Profit Over Human Life

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Sarah Jones

Anadolu/Getty ImagesIn December 2024, a masked gunman shot and killed UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson in the streets of New York City. The murder roiled the internet. Although most social media users agreed that nothing could justify murder, the crime ignited a furious public debate about health insurance companies like United. For most Americans, private health insurance is a fact of life.
How Do We Defend Science?

1 month ago | nymag.com | Sarah Jones

In a recent profile at the Bulwark, Shane DiGiovanna described his life with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a rare genetic disease that causes much of his skin to shear off from his body, damages his hearing, and gives him cancer. It's difficult for him to eat, let alone work. Gene therapy could offer a solution one day, but as DiGiovanna said, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk "could devastate the next decade of research and development of a cure for RDEB - my holy grail ...
Trump Was Always Going to Betray Veterans

1 month ago | nymag.com | Sarah Jones

In filmmaker Paul Verhoeven's adaptation of Starship Troopers, military service guarantees citizenship in a futuristic - and fascist - regime. The policy is simple: Join the war on the alien bugs or suffer a second-class life. Verhoeven's satire worked in part because it echoed real-world politics. Although the American government is a mite less radical than the fanatical world government of Verhoeven's film, our politicians have long promised a form of enhanced citizenship to those who fight.
How the Fringe Captured the Right

2 months ago | nymag.com | Sarah Jones

This is adapted from Sarah Jones's forthcoming book, Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass, available from Avid Reader Press on February 18. Earla Dawn Dimitriadis sought beauty in life and looked for it on her deathbed, her daughter, Jennifer Ritz Sullivan, said. No stranger to ugliness, Earla wanted the happiness that others had often denied her. "She grew up in a poor household with a lot of abuse at the hands of her parents," Jennifer explains.