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3 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Timothy Sandefur |Kevin Williamson |Valerie Pavilonis |Carl Graham
The Monday Essay If ‘America First’ applies to architecture, why don't its acolytes prioritize the country’s greatest builder? Published March 31, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. Among the 36 executive orders President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office was one document that stood out as strangely … aesthetic.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | James Sutton |Valerie Pavilonis |Ryan Brown |Michael Reneau
Hey everyone, thanks for all the great questions! In a job where you spend so much time typing words on the internet, it’s nice to be reminded that real people actually read—and even more surprisingly, enjoy—what you write! Let’s dive right in.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Valerie Pavilonis |Kevin Williamson |Greg Fournier |Jonah Goldberg
Culture Consciously or not, modern art is considering the afterlife. Published March 15, 2025 Ever heard of the artist Otobong Nkanga? No? What about Rick Riordan? Yes, you’ve probably heard of him, writer of the Percy Jackson children’s adventure series, where the Greek and Roman gods are simple and zany and no one asks too many questions about infidelity. I confess that Riordan’s prose never wowed me.
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1 month ago | 
arcmag.org | Valerie Pavilonis
My twenty-fifth birthday celebration was typical for a young New Yorker: black going-out tops, alcohol, songs from college on loop, and friends, new and old, filtering in and out of my walk-up apartment. Around midnight, we hit the second location: a club in one of the seedier parts of the Lower East Side, complete with overpriced drinks and a late-night Uber home. Except we made a stop before home: St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church, on the Upper East Side.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Valerie Pavilonis |Charles Hilu |Grayson Logue |Michael Reneau
Dear Dispatch readers,Thank you to everyone who participated in our latest Monthly Mailbag with Valerie Pavilonis, our new ideas editor. To read about her time at Yale University, why she jumped from the New York Times to The Dispatch, and her plans for our cultural coverage, be sure to click here. This month, Morning Dispatch reporter James P. Sutton has raised his hand to take on all of your questions.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jamie Weinstein |John Mccormack |Bobby Miller |Valerie Pavilonis
‘It’s about the reaction.’ Published February 24, 2025 MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough joins Jamie Weinstein to discuss the first month of Donald Trump’s presidency and whether or not we should hit the panic button over the elected “king.”The Agenda:—Separating signal from the noise—The seven-year itch (to ghost)—Will SCOTUS stop President Trump? —Using the Justice Department—The future of the GOP
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Valerie Pavilonis |Ryan Brown |Michael Warren |Michael Reneau
Our new ideas editor answers your questions. Published February 23, 2025 At the beginning of every month, a different Dispatch staffer fields questions from members and compiles his or her answer in a mailbag a few weeks later. This month, it was ideas editor Valerie Pavilonis’ turn. To ensure you’re able to submit questions for March’s Mailbag, click below to become a full Dispatch member.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
arcmag.org | Valerie Pavilonis
Kacey Sycamore, 33, grew up in the Los Angeles area. She went to Chico State to study journalism before working in radio and marketing. She lived a life she describes as “pretty average,” which is why it may seem surprising that Sycamore now lives in upstate New York with the Bruderhof, a communal Christian movement with communities scattered across mostly the Northeast.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Valerie Pavilonis
In advice last month for Catholic voters in America, Pope Francis said that both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris "are against life, be it the one who kicks out migrants or be it the one who kills babies." Following this, Francis urged voters to choose the "lesser evil," though the moral math was up to the individual voter. But how do you choose? For all of Trump's anti-immigrant roaring and Harris's comparative softness, both candidates have promised asylum restrictions.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
newsguardtech.com | Coalter Palmer |Valerie Pavilonis
By Coalter Palmer | Published on Sept. 28, 2023A network of 17 TikTok accounts appears to be leveraging hyper-realistic audio AI voice technology to gain hundreds of millions of views on conspiracy content that sounds authentically human, NewsGuard has found.
