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This is How We Fall Out of Love with the World
The Twilight of the American Passion Job
The Social Media Sea Change
What happens when the thing that structured so much of our lives loses its utility?
Taylor Swift and the Good Girl Trap
Winning is Losing
Posting Less
Everyone's Doing It
Who Else Is Feeling This In Their Body
Take each other's sorrow seriously — that includes your own
This is How Much America Still Hates Women
They hate us, and they think we will learn to hate ourselves, too. But they also underestimate us.
The Millennial Vernacular of Fatphobia
Celery is a Calorie-Negative Food
The Unexpected Melancholy of Nicole Kidman's Divorce
If you open this newsletter all the time, if you forward to your friends and co-workers, if it challenges you to think in new and different ways …
The Futile Search for the Bullsh*t-Less Job
Total Control + Totalizing Fear
White Celebrity and Rituals of Civility
Taylor Swift, Brittany Mahomes, Kate Middleton, and Culture Study
The Unraveling of a Royal Fairytale
The Princess and The Bad Photoshop
The Secret to a Hobby-Filled Life
No it's not just being retired
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