beautifully said

the dawn of the great uncancelling

Each social media network creates a particular kind of teenage star: Those blessed with early-onset hotness are drawn to YouTube

We’re inclined to leave them unencumbered by a definition, to preserve their ability to shift shapes.

Sycophancy has a kind of momentum. Like any form of groupthink, it is part conformity, part self-preservation. The first person to grovel is undignified, but each subsequent act of coward­ice allows the next person to acquiesce more easily.

Saudade is a Portuguese word that can be roughly defined as a feeling of melancholy, nostalgia or yearning for something that is beloved but not present. There's no perfect translation, but one of the closest English expressions of the word I've ever seen is Billie Eilish's Tiny Desk performance.

You'd think the Los Angeles-born singer invented the ... See more

she crystallized a cultural mood