‘Judgment is the price of being creative’
Sometimes doing the same thing and doing it well is the best form of reinvention
Tik tok
Sunday
Wednesday
How some of the most derided bands of all time are making a comeback
After ten years apart, the band are back together and touring
Saturday
Bankers are hot again
We all deserve a second chance, even bankers in their branded gilets
Wednesday
Sharing riot videos? You’re part of the problem
Violence, like sex, goes viral because it is so addictive to watch
Sunday
How a TikTok dance craze turned into a brainwashing cult
The Shekinah Church embodies and capitalizes on the peculiar madness of our age
Cooking the books: the rise of fake libraries
Fake books can convince only if nobody tries to read them
Tuesday
The TikTok stars taking on the Tories
The old adage is that you win elections by seizing the center ground. That’s not how you win TikTok
Saturday
Why was Blinken’s China visit so underwhelming?
His trip also heralded a significant increase in dialogue and diplomacy
Thursday
Inside America’s stand against TikTok
Opposition to the bill has brought together a broad and unusual coalition
Sunday
Chicago doesn’t know what limits are
What a marvelous thing the city has given the world
Friday
Have we all become slaves to algorithms?
The further into Filterworld I got the more I stopped worrying
Sunday
The sad world of the online influencer
Exposing your life to the mob is the only thing that seems to work
Wednesday
Why so many teenagers support Palestine
We view the world through smartphones; we understand current affairs through video snippets
Sunday
Are smartphones making us care less about humanity?
The aim of any social media platform is to keep a user trapped for as long as possible
Friday
‘Childhood has been rewired’: Professor Jonathan Haidt on how smartphones are damaging a generation
Jonathan Haidt argues that the tools of social media are just too sharp for young minds
Friday
Women are obsessed with the Romans, too
Professor Mary Beard told me: ‘I must confess that I probably think about the Roman Empire about fifty times a day’
Wednesday
I’m cancelling rat girl summer
It is a license to ignore, or play at ignoring, the needs of others in the name of a hazily righteous politics
The dangerous cult of ‘toxic parents’
‘There is a sense among younger people today that if the relationship is aversive, they have the ability to get out of it’
Thursday
Stop turning dead authors into sex symbols
Kafka has seen a flowering of affectionate interest on social media. He’s not the only one
Monday
The toxic women of gym TikTok
Too many ladies are filming in the weights room for clout