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The Monstrous Cruelty of a Just World
In the 1960s, a social psychologist named Melvin Lerner noticed something troubling about his colleagues. The therapists at his hospital—generally such nice, sympathetic people—seemed to be acting...
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'I Don't Think We Remember it the Same Way'
Facts are the wreckage of history, not the vessels that carry it. The poster for Ava DuVernay’s new film Selma contains some clever misdirection: You see the back of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s head,...
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there’s a guy standing beside mewaiting for the busguy saysIsrael is like a coffee cupthen he wipes his noseon his sleeveIsrael is like a coffee cup? I sayhow?I should know? he saysI look like a...
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Dry January: A Failure
Few people are more worthy of your scorn than the one who announces on the first day of a new month, with near-sociopathic conviction, “I AMDOING A CLEANSE.” I became this specific type of asshole a...
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Alone in a Different Reality
In a scene midway through Andrew O’Hagan’s new book, The Illuminations, Alice is talking to her mother’s doctor. Alice’s mother, Anne, is in the early stages of dementia, and Alice talks about the...
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Bleak Chic
The 2004 French film Les Revenants (translated as They Came Back, now a TV series) opens with scores of the recently departed returning from the grave, not as dripping zombies but in the same chinos,...
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Trauma is the Truth Worth Talking About
Two-thirds of the way into My Revolutions, Hari Kunzru’s novel of ’60s leftist radicalism in Britain, an activist collective starts to break down because of a blowjob. Anna, the privileged white woman...
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Ethical Pearls
The mind wanders on vacation; why else vacation in the first place? Away from work and home life, surrounded by people who live in total ignorance of your typical daily toil, every motion is outward....
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Seeking a More Complicated Truth: An Interview with Peter Carey
The works of Peter Carey span continents and centuries. He’s equally adept at precise descriptions as he is at navigating situations where ambiguity is the dominant mode, his novels encompassing...
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The Arcade: Episode 47, Featuring Jim Gaffigan
You can subscribe to the podcast oniTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and viaRSS.This Week…On Canada’s unofficial chip selections, race relations, and the disadvantages of being ethnic. Hazlitt managing...
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If You're Going To Complain, Be Funny—But Not Too Funny
The Haribo Sugar Free Gummy Bear reign of terror was devastating and well-documented. On the German candy’s Amazon page, the comments piled up—review after review, each with a more baroquely intricate...
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Horror's True Gift
In March of last year, a nightmare quietly spilled out of the forest and a child died. Those who mourned at that child’s funeral started to fall ill and die themselves. Then their families began to...
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Every Grammy-Winning Record of the Year, Rated and Reviewed
Not quite a year ago, inspired by awards-show season and the Marxist theorist Stuart Hall (“Popular culture … is the arena of consent and resistance”), I listened to every winner of the Best Original...
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Faking Sick For Work: A Field Study
The most impressive story I heard while asking people about their tactics for faking sick came from a man I’ll call Cameron (not his real name, for soon-to-be-obvious reasons). Though neither the most...
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The Arcade: Episode 48, Featuring Dr. James Maskalyk and Dr. James Orbinski
You can find The Arcade on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and RSS.This Week…On a special episode of The Arcade, we present the entirety of The Borderless Plague, a live Hazlitt talk on the challenges of...
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The End of Alaska's Ferry Bars
The work of Alaskan artist Ray Troll is ubiquitous in the Panhandle, that long thin slice of the state that sheathes British Columbia north of Prince Rupert. His website advertises “the fin art of Ray...
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'You Can Burn the Paper, But the Stories Live On'
A bearish shopper approaches Imran Siddiqui’s stall, carrying a ripped bag full of freshly cut meat, and asks for two books. Parked 500 metres away from a butcher shop in Karachi, Pakistan, his tables...
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