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Why the world is obsessed with white women

Internet

Sydney Sweeney

Why the world is obsessed with white women

A brief history of the awkward fact that pale/white women are perceived by almost all humanity as more desirable

Sean Thomas

The internet doesn’t know what a Nazi is

Today’s youth see Nazis everywhere except where they actually are

Josh Kaplan

A global MAGA crusade against web regulation?

We are often – wrongly – told that MAGA is simply a politics of expediency and national self-interest

Travis Aaroe

Musk’s AI chatbot Grok hails Hitler

X engineers were quick to disable the software after they were alerted to its rather strange responses

Cockburn

RIP?

Bluesky is on the way out

The app currently functions as a kind of philosophical quarantine zone, a safe place where the most politically infected can stew among themselves

Sean Thomas

Culture
August 19, 2025
Woody Allen without the zingers: Materialists reviewed
As an exploration of the tension between love and money the film is surprisingly unsubtle from the word go
Deborah Ross
Culture
August 18, 2025
What the skibidi?
The Cambridge Dictionary has added a few Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha slang terms
Neal Pollack
Culture
August 15, 2025
Donald Trump saved the UFC
It’s become the sport of the GOP
Britt McHenry
Culture
August 15, 2025
The trouble with Fran Lebowitz
Those who rail most vigorously against humanity tend to rank among its most unpleasant specimens
Michael Henderson
Culture
August 13, 2025
Trump is liberating the Smithsonians from ‘Woke’
Trump is giving Americans back their cultural and educational institutions
Roger Kimball
Culture
August 13, 2025
Wow! The Trumpiest Kennedy Center list ever
Donald Trump is enshrining George Strait, Michael Crawford, Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor and, yes, KISS
Neal Pollack
Culture
August 13, 2025
Did I underestimate Harry and Meghan?
It has been announced that Netflix and Hal & Megs will be in business for another five years, giving the haters and naysayers ample reason to weep and gnash their teeth
Alexander Larman
Culture
August 11, 2025
Is Hollywood’s woke tide finally turning?
Dean Cain joining ICE may be something of a bellwether
Julie Burchill
Culture
August 8, 2025
The rise of white signaling
Let us get used once again to guiltlessly celebrating the sheer pleasure of being alive and white
Damian Reilly
Book Review
August 7, 2025
The language of hair in 19th-century America
A book about hair as a kind of cultural text
Ian Sansom

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