Culture | Opinion

I worshiped Ronald Reagan and big hair in the 1980s. The MAGA youth of today remind me of myself.

By Elizabeth Spiers

Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.

By Tim Donahue

Most of us aren’t hilarious or gorgeous or famous, and “Saturday Night Live” gives us access to all of those things.

By Curtis Sittenfeld

The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.

By Michelle Goldberg

With an audience of over 120 million people, the performance broke viewership records. But at times it seemed designed to speak directly to me.

By Tiana Clark

In today’s erotic thrillers, controlling, sexually assertive men appear as objects of sexual fascination.

By Matthew Schmitz

On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to one another in code, with the whole world watching.

By Christopher Buckley

Now that he’s performing at the Super Bowl, it seems he’s inherited a no-win situation for all the conflicted expectations that await him.

By Dan Charnas

What sports betting reveals about addiction.

By Carl Erik Fisher

The breathy persona she’s built might be read as an avatar for the very worldview that would make shameless sex positivity a thing of the past.

By Andi Zeisler