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The Year in Right-Wing Disarray
You can’t always predict what will grab and hold your attention—a pop song, a politician, a personal tragedy. As the year comes to an end, Hazlitt’s writers look back on the things they were...
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The Year in Robotic Seduction
You can’t always predict what will grab and hold your attention—a pop song, a politician, a personal tragedy. As the year comes to an end, Hazlitt’s writers look back on the things they were...
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Al Goldstein: The Anti-Hef
One of the few traces left of Al Goldstein in New York City is in the Cortlandt Alley in Chinatown, in a doorway that houses New York’s smallest museum, called Museum. Next to rotating exhibitions like...
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Death of a Scenester
If you know of the musician Dave Van Ronk, you probably love folk music more than the average person. In his four-decade-long career, he wrote exactly one hit—“Bamboo,” recorded by Peter, Paul, and...
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The 10 Suckiest Sucks of Sucky 2013
Welcome to Well, That Sucked, our weekly compendium of exactly what it sounds like. This week, we celebrate a truly garbage year by counting down the 10 worst things that happened in 2013. It was a...
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Have Blockbuster Movies Been Good for Comic Books?
Among 2013’s highest-grossing films are the stories of a wisecracking, armour-wearing billionaire (Iron Man 3, #1), a clean-cut alien in tights (Man of Steel, #4), a beefcake Norse god (Thor: The Dark...
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All the Best: Our Favourite Things From 2013
We here at Hazlitt take our year-end list-making very seriously. In the interest of showing you just how the consensus-sausage is made, we present our staff’s complete, unedited ballots.JORDAN...
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Why Feminist Art Still Matters
In 1989, the Guerilla Girls asked: “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” On the cusp of 2014, the question still stands—what will it take to move women from subject to creator?...
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Rob Ford Can’t Win, But Everyone Else Can Still Find Ways to Lose
There are, as of Monday morning, nine months and 20 days until Toronto’s next municipal election. (Your child, if you start today, could be born on the day Rob Ford is defeated, or reelected!) If 2013...
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Jon Benjamin Has a Perfect Voice
If there is such a thing as the perfect male voice, our generation’s triumphal baritone belongs to H. Jon Benjamin.When you’re actually watching him talk—he looks a bit like a schlubby middle manager,...
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The Gift Of Sheer Celebrity
The clock keeps tickin’, and just like that, we’re already a week into 2014. The ritual of celebrating the new year is a great one, offering us a time for reflection and the chance to point our...
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This is the Golden Age: How to Write on the Internet in 2014
I would like to take this opportunity to give young writers some advice in this, the New Year, because I am a great guy. What are my qualifications to give writing advice? Well, I’ve worked Monday...
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The Price of America’s Lost Decade at War
The Republic of Iraq lost control over key cities in Anbar province in the past week, with the capital Ramadi and Fallujah falling into al-Qaeda hands. While it’s not exactly clear what the extent of...
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Lonely Palette: The Economy of Colour in Spike Jonze’s Her
When Spike Jonze says the words “Jamba Juice” in his skittish, half-splintered voice, it sounds less like an international smoothie chain and more like a local hangout at some featureless strip mall...
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The First World Problem
I was jogging the other day across a wide intersection when a black SUV turned into me. The thing missed me by inches, only—in retrospect—thanks to a moment of uncharacteristic agility, purely...
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Are You On Team Martha?
One of my favourite elements of the Slate Book Review is the author-editor interview. (Having sat in both seats myself, I’m reminded of the comedian Fred Allen, who, after editors put in their demands...
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A New Test for the Emergency Broadcast System
American telecom giant AT&T proposed something this week that is almost certainly dead on arrival: the reincarnation of Ma Bell thought it would be just swell if advertisers and other businesses...
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Why Do People Listen to Pitbull?
Last week, Pitbull’s “Timber” reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The song, which features Ke$ha singing “It’s going down, I’m yelling timber” over a faux-country harmonica hook, also topped...
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Hedge Your Concepts: On Angel Haze’s Dirty Gold
Last December, as Beyoncé snuck her new album-cum-anthology-film-cum-oracular-monolith into public view with the kind of uniform secrecy that characterizes amphibious invasions, the 22-year-old rapper...
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