I realized that Hogwarts is actually a trade school – a polytechnic! All we ever learned there was how to cast spells and brew potions.

I feel no obligation to have kids, and neither should you.

The Wuhan lab leak hypothesis was initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory before the mainstream started taking it seriously. What lessons can we learn from this about what to believe?

As the US withdraws from the region, China may come to be seen as the chief foreign interloper.

Elites habitually underestimate the working-class, assuming that we’re not interested in highbrow things. But we’re smarter than they think.

There are tons of GoFundMe campaigns out there. Here are some of the most unworthy.

“How many times have you been driving and some motherfucker honks you from behind for, like, no reason, but you can’t honk him back because your horn only goes forward?”

Today, Westerners admire violent heroism more than ever, so long as it’s in the distant past or in movies. Is the great heroism of the West now gone to dust and song?

Years from now, it’s likely people will make all sorts of false claims about the War in Afghanistan. Perhaps it’s worth setting a few things down, for the record.

How tyrants fear, use, and try to control music.