Magic + Loss

With his bozo ode to testosterone, Tucker Carlson joins the ranks of Mussolini, Berlusconi, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump in a pose of cartoon virility. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present joins Virginia on this week’s This is Critical
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Payton Gendron, the only suspect in the Buffalo mass murder, identifies explicitly as a white supremacist fascist. He adds that he has neo-Nazi beliefs…
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Today, as pro-abortion and -choice rallies storm center squares all over the country and persist in the rain here in New York, I’ve put together a list…
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In “The Dropout,” showrunner Liz Meriwether created a fictional version of audacious megascammer Elizabeth Holmes. How was Meriwether able to humanize a…
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Have you ever tried to break up with someone and tried to make it seem like their idea? Or had this happened to you? What a spot-on description of this…
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Peter Biskind’s 1999 page-turner Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex Drugs and Rock-n-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood told the story of the irritable…
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The news that Twitter has a new emperor got people riled up. But what will Elon Musk's takeover really mean for the platform? In this week’s This is…
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Workers at an Amazon warehouse in New York shocked the company and voted to unionize this month. It was a David-and-Goliath victory. This week on This…
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