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Is Popular Culture Really in Terminal Decline?

An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.

Welcome to the Trumpcession

I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m stocking up on ibuprofen.

How to Define Old Age

Why would the World Health Organization want to call “old age” a disease?

The SNL Sketch That Captured Millennial Anxiety

The guest host Quinta Brunson was the perfect fit to introduce “Forever 31.”

The Most Infamous Narcissist in Literary History Gets a Smartphone

A new stage production of The Picture of Dorian Gray conveys the cost of posturing online.

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