The classics are having a moment. Not that they’ve ever fallen fully out of favor. But like any enduring cultural staple (Shakespeare, beards, long hairstyles) their fortunes wax and wane. Right now, they’re rising. Christopher Nolan announced that his next film, the follow-up to the blockbuster Oscar-winner Oppenheimer, will be an adaptation of the Odyssey. […]

When you get older, your life naturally splits into separate social compartments. You have your family compartment and your work compartment. Your friends are segmented into separate categories: old friends, college friends, and forgot-how-we-became-friends friends. That sort of thing.  Most of us keep all of these social silos in separate group text chats. That’s the […]

For my entire conscious life, being a fan of the team known sequentially as the Redskins, the Washington Football Team, or the Commanders was cosmic punishment. Being a supporter of this team meant meditating on what communal sin or inner flaw one’s investment of time and emotion was paying for. Each failed season raised the […]

At age 69, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has an impressive, if mixed, résumé. But when you ask him what his biggest regret is, it’s not buddying up with Jeffrey Epstein or microchipping the populace with the COVID-19 vaccine (kidding!). His biggest failure, he told the Times last week, is his divorce. “That was the […]