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Past Lives
I rarely have occasion to visit sports stadiums anymore. Before this weekend, the last time I entered an enormous arena was not to be taken hostage b…
America’s Housing Paradox, Hiding in Plain Sight
In June, Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released a report that confirmed the obvious but unbearable reality that most aspiring…
Panic! At the Airport Lounge
Something devastating is happening to airport lounges, and those paid to catalog subtle economic and cultural shifts are taking note.The food? “Sad.”…
Selling Sales
I love being lied to by beautiful, rich women on the internet. Not just any influencer will do—my preferred shared hallucination is the business infl…
When We Fight, We Win
For a few hours on the Fourth of July, I did the most patriotic thing I could imagine: joining local Safeway workers on the picket line as they conti…
That Funny Feeling
The surgeon general’s pop-up shop, Robert Iger’s faceDiscount Etsy agitprop, Bugles’ take on raceFemale Colonel Sanders, easy answers, civil warThe w…
To Personal Finance, My First True Love
Over the long weekend, I was toying with a creative prompt: “What are you afraid to write?” Reflecting on the last dozen interviews I’d done for Rich…
The Venture Capitalization of Culture
For a recent story published by The Cut, Bindu Bansinath surveyed 102 of the publication’s readers about the most “frivolous thing” they’d taken on d…
Scenes From an Empire in Denial
Every once in a while, a series of mundane events accumulates to produce a moment of out-of-body, blistering clarity. “Clarity” is not a mental state…
Pineapple Suite State of Mind
This essay contains copious White Lotus season 3 spoilers. If you’re not caught up, please stop whatever else you’re doing and go spend the next eigh…
