Elon is coming for your marriage
Grown men – and increasingly, grown women – are building intimate, complex, sustained romantic relationships with AI
Culture
Tuesday
Monday
What the skibidi?
The Cambridge Dictionary has added a few Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha slang terms
Friday
Donald Trump saved the UFC
It’s become the sport of the GOP
Wednesday
Trump is liberating the Smithsonians from ‘Woke’
Trump is giving Americans back their cultural and educational institutions
Wow! The Trumpiest Kennedy Center list ever
Donald Trump is enshrining George Strait, Michael Crawford, Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor and, yes, KISS
Monday
Trump eulogizes Woke on Truth Social
The theater kids lose, normal America wins
Thursday
RIP Hulk Hogan, the omnipresent Eighties icon
Professional wrestling made an unprecedented impact on American pop culture, most of it due to his popularity
Tuesday
The enduring appeal of Jaws, 50 years on
It’s easy to forget that there was nothing inevitable about the film’s long-lasting success
‘Being a mom sometimes sucks’: an interview with Sarah Hoover
The art historian’s memoir is no feminist treatise
How museums can promote diversity without demonizing tradition
We need art that keeps our collective imagination and sense of tradition alive
Saturday
How AI will reignite woke
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
Tuesday
Elon Musk and Greta Thunberg: strange bedfellows
Natalists and climate alarmists are starting to sound alike
Why we need to talk about black anti-Semitism
There is now a growing rift between these two historically persecuted groups
Tuesday
Why does Irish art avoid the Troubles?
There is something truly pathological about the taboo given that Irish art is awash with politics
Dead Outlaw is sharp-witted and irreverent
An irreverent musical about the ‘life’ of a mysterious dead body forces us to confront death
Saturday
The Met’s ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ is equally horrifying and inspiring
Dandyism was imposed on enslaved black men in the 18th century by their owners
Friday
Why Gen Z is converting to Catholicism
Our culture is saturated with vulgarity and pornography
Wednesday
In ambiguity, Tancredi Di Carcaci finds inspiration
His new body of work – Spoglia – is on display at New York’s Palo Gallery
Friday
Kevin Spacey’s #MeToo revenge
It’s easy to forget just how oppressive the #MeToo moment was
Tuesday
Charles Ives was a composer before his time
He can be remembered as a time-traveler through American music whose presence changed everything
The Picture of Dorian Gray is headache-inducing
Sarah Snook excels in her 26-role masterclass — but there’s too much tech
My Bob Dylan pilgrimage
The lights dimmed and the crowd roared as he walked on stage
Monday
Are we at Peak Movie Theater?
The numbers don’t lie: they’re as popular as ever
Saturday
The Met Gala flirts with MAGA
‘Anna is known for adding a few surprises’
Wednesday
Whatever happened to the Panther Den Show?
Why a generation of online right-wingers embraced its esoteric memes
The genius of Gene Hackman
He was the greatest character actor of the past half-century
Saturday
In defense of the Disney Adult
The animatronic children of ‘It’s a Small World’ made me cry
Wednesday
We don’t live in an age of reason
Never has our understanding of the world been weaker
Thursday
Can a TV series capture the extraordinary story of the Mitford girls?
It remains to be seen whether Outrageous lives up to its billing
