Culture

These shooters are radicalized, but in no particular direction. Their identities fragment. There is a deep fear of being forgotten

Swift had no effect on the course of the election. She’ll have no effect on birth rates. This is probably for the best

Hey Grok, generate an image of white guilt

Las Vegas is in trouble, but as anyone who has ever loved Vegas knows well, you are only one big win from turning it around

Why it’s all going to be OK

Grown men – and increasingly, grown women – are building intimate, complex, sustained romantic relationships with AI

The Cambridge Dictionary has added a few Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha slang terms

Trump is giving Americans back their cultural and educational institutions

The theater kids lose, normal America wins

Professional wrestling made an unprecedented impact on American pop culture, most of it due to his popularity

There are too many loose ends. Too many vanishing subplots

Woke politics are a way of signifying that you are high-status – and all of this status anxiety is about to be supercharged by AI

Natalists and climate alarmists are starting to sound alike

We’ve come to a series of startling conclusions about a change that’s happening in US society