I didn’t apply for any of my three college internships, nor did I apply for my post-grad job. In fact, all four opportunities stemmed — at least in part — from one stupid quip I delivered as a sophomore in Plaster Auditorium. “Ya ever hire interns from a state with a few more lakes?” I...
The first time I read Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life,” I ended up on the bathroom floor crying so hard I needed to use my childhood inhaler. Some call it empathy. Some call it effective writing. Some call it the consequences of BookTok, a subgenre of content on TikTok about books and reading. BookTok made...
When Peter Thiel said this February that he wants to bankroll a new Olympics that permits the use of steroids, critics slammed the billionaire entrepreneur for his views. But his idea is, in a way, excellent. We should welcome a reimagined Olympics that returns the games to their classical roots. Grigory Rodchenkov, a doctor who...
While Hollywood glasses, obscenely large hair bows, and an outfit with all the colors of the rainbow customarily clothed child-celebrity Joelle Joanie “Jojo” Siwa, her style appears to have taken a sinister turn. Jojo Siwa began her professional life at the young age of 9, participating in “Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition,” a spinoff of the...
Some people enjoy Bach’s majestic fugues, Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas. Others can’t get enough of John Williams, Hans Zimmer, and Ennico Moricone. A few poor souls are even attracted to the insipid lyrics and uninspired tunes of “musicians” like Taylor Swift, Beyonce, or BTS. For me, however, it’s “The Duck Song.” ...