Archive - Entertainment, Weakly

Soul Searching (Reprise)

With its overtone of loss, nostalgia isn't homesickness, but time sickness.

Aug 14 •

July 2025

L’Age de l’écran

The United States is probably the ur-example of what happens to a country when you use consumer technology to take society apart.

Jul 22 •

June 2025

Pride and Paperbacks

and an excerpt from The Future Was Color

Jun 10 •

Packing My Library

What I want from my shelves, as I pack them up, is criticism. Here are a few of my favorites.

Jun 3 •

May 2025

Sentimental Materialism

When I was growing up, the zeitgeist said to fear and despise the office cubicle. Today, most people live in them.

May 6 •

April 2025

A Century Later, Tom and Daisy Are Still Ruining Our Lives

There’s a sense in the novel that, unless we have the language for something, it’s not real and it has no future.

Apr 8 •

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Eliot and I have at least one thing in common: Some people never get over being raised in the Midwest.

Apr 1 •

March 2025

February 2025

Time for a Little Anarchy

As much as I hate slogans, I do have to say that “become ungovernable” has a certain ring to it.

Feb 25 •

We Asked for Leaders, Not Influencers

The problem is actually much more systemic and banal: The Democrats think posting is politics.

Feb 18 •

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