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Why is Europe Falling Back Into Old, Hateful Habits?
Do you know what a quenelle is? It’s fucking ridiculous, is what it is: a new salute—a cutesy spin on the Sieg Heil!—that’s tearing across the European memeosphere as an expression of various...
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Justin Trudeau’s Bold, Pointless Senate Gambit
As a rule, almost nothing that happens in the Senate of Canada actually matters. The upper chamber of the Canadian Parliament can refuse to pass a bill that comes to it from the Commons, which it does...
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What Went Wrong This Week For … Feminism
Welcome to Well, That Sucked, our weekly compendium of exactly what it sounds like. Thrown in this week’s garbage: girls, girls, you’re all pretty, okay? You know, one would hope that after Beyoncé...
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Le Super Bowl
, Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz, “Throw It Up”One summer when I was about 10 and staying with my grandparents in Selkirk, Manitoba, I had an experience so out-of-character that it stands out in...
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Philip Seymour Hoffman is Dead and the World is a Garbage Can
Philip Seymour Hoffman was probably the greatest actor of his generation, and now he’s dead. From a pained nobody laughing and faking his way through a conversation about sports with a coworker, to one...
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The sky’s an homage to planned obsolescence.It’s rocking a case of feature creep, cloudslike drool blooms filling a pillow fasterthan you can say: Careful or your face might get stuck that way. This...
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Bruno Mars is a Tiny Virtuoso Even the Red Hot Chili Peppers Can’t Ruin
Unlike certain colleagues, I never hated football. The only sport I spent time resenting as a kid was hockey, with its cultural omnipresence that obliged me to strap twenty pounds of plastic and metal...
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Designing a Better Past
, In 1955, Walt Disney stood in front of a crowd of 28,000 people and said these magic words: “To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of...
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A Bad Time For Climate-Change Deniers in the Courts
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is having a bit of a rough go in the courts lately. The CEI—best known in recent years for trying to rebrand planet-threatening carbon dioxide emissions with the...
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Video Games And Minty Kools
Super Bowl viewers in Georgia were treated to this insane two-minute ad from personal injury lawyer Jamie Casino, which includes a flaming sledgehammer and Proverbs 31:8. The whole thing is like a...
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The Hazlitt Offensive: Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart is the New York Times bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan. His most recent memoir, Little Failure, recounts his experience coming to America in the late...
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Gods Are Dead: On Philip Seymour Hoffman and Addiction
Amy Winehouse made me want to drink again. Even at her most damaged and difficult, she made drinking attractive because it seemed defiant, a big fuck you. At one point I idolized her tragedy more than...
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I’m Using Tinder Wrong: On the Web as an Archive of the Evocative
A few days ago, for no more than half a second, I thought I could Google smells. I don’t mean that I thought I could simply look them up—rather, for the tiniest fraction of time, I thought I could type...
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In Defense of the Rock Reunion Tour
Slowdive, a band I’m sure is very good but that I care not a whit about because I am one of those lost and lonely few in 2014 who gives zero damns about shoegaze, is reuniting. You won’t see too much...
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Tragic, Unsettling, and Otherwise Serious Reads with a Magic Eye Intermission
Intrepid reporter Forrest Wickman over at Slate looks into what in the hell we were doing when we kept poking each other on Facebook a decade ago. (Was it sexy? Maybe it was supposed to be sexy.) While...
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Russian Fairytales, Terrifying and Otherwise
In December two members of Pussy Riot, fresh out of jail, held a press conference in Moscow. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, aka “Nadya Tolokno,” made it clear that her position on Vladimir Putin, in case...
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It’s Time For Olivia Chow (and John Tory) to Stop Playing Coy
In the Old Testament, God gives man the privilege of naming every animal of the field and every bird of the air after He has given man dominion over them. (“Sorry, ladies, wait 6000 years” -God) We...
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Are Corporate Ad Campaigns ‘Borrowing’ from Artists?
Last Saturday, at an event called the Luminosity Art Ball in Lexington, Kentucky, Calgary-based artists Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett unveiled “New Moon,” a sculpture built from more than...
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The State of Late Night, or: This is the Chair Jimmy Fallon Will Die In
He certainly had his defenders—not the least of which was Tina Fey, who included a thinly veiled parody/tribute version of him in the first seasons of 30 Rock—but for me, Jimmy Fallon’s run on Saturday...
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Revolutionary Toilets, Enemies of the State, and the Next Pussy Riot
We’re still 24 hours away from the opening ceremonies of the Sochi Winter Olympics but already Russian President Vladimir Putin and the athletes are finding themselves overshadowed by a bigger...
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