A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
What Parents of Boys Should Know
Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the sons might need it more.
We’re Back to the Actually Internet
Fact-checking is out, “Community Notes” are in.
What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?
“Our boyfriends, our significant others, and our husbands are supposed to be No. 1. Our worlds are backward.”
‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’
The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.
The Most Infamous Narcissist in Literary History Gets a Smartphone
A new stage production of The Picture of Dorian Gray conveys the cost of posturing online.
Peter Thiel Is Taking a Break From Democracy
It’s one of his many, many disappointments.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
Americans Are Buying an Escape Plan
Is it time for a second passport?
I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
Photos of Huawei’s European-Themed Campus in China
The Ox Horn research and development campus is being developed as 12 separate “towns,” with research buildings being modeled after famous castles, palaces, and more.
Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene
Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.
The Short-Circuiting of the American Mind
A century-old book foresaw Trump’s most basic strategy.
The Great Cousin Decline
Families are shrinking. But the weirdest family role is a vital one.
What Porn Taught a Generation of Women
It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.
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