Boycott palm oil today and forever

The concept of nabbing one of the last remaining freelance book reviewing opportunities at a major publication and outsourcing the work to AI.

Oh, there’s a very stupid piece in a very powerful magazine, written by a very successful novelist that I would like to drag to high heaven, but my recent resolution is to be more careerist😩😩😩😩😩😩

Gone Baby Gone ; Picnic at Hanging Rock

He was such a vibe

I kinda needed her to pop up at the wedding in The Drama like a cameo in an MCU event film

In its second season, it's become a show about one disease's universality, and the myriad ways that people live with it. gq.com/story/what-the…

Bessent calls the Strait of Hormuz the "Strait of Vermouth"

For GQ Magazine , I wrote about how Season Two of #thepitt improves upon the show’s portrayal of addiction, adding nuance & ambiguity to Season One’s blunt force moralizing gq.com/story/what-the…

Neuroscientist explains how the SAT is redefining education

I’ve been friends and colleagues with Jeff for 20 years. We co-wrote a book together. He was at my wedding. I’m biased. However, I know in my waters that no one else puts their time and efforts into remaking cultural coverage the way that he does. Subscribe now.

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

I think the PITT finale’s Robby vs. Al-Hashimi argument is a good (for TV) depiction of a disabled person knowing she is more capable than the person she’s arguing with claims, while simultaneously realizing she has diminished capacity and needs major workplace accommodations

come for the sentence “Not to say Robby is a chauvinist,” stay for Wyle reminiscing on A Few Good Men w/ Tom Cruise or the moment he realized life was different after ER ended

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Fulham Ultras celebrating a point in their “derby” with Brentford

For Slate , I wrote about one of America’s greatest unsolved crimes, and how 80 years of obsession research and culture still can’t let Beth Short — The Black Dahlia — rest. slate.com/culture/2026/0…

For your Friday and weekend reading, I chased the story of Beth Short, the so-called Black Dahlia, through decades of culture and to the people in Los Angeles keeping the story alive. My latest, for Slate slate.com/culture/2026/0…