Sublime
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For people on the right, it’s sparked by horror at changing demographics and gender roles
Michelle Goldberg • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
Irreverent and, to some, irrelevant, the oddball city at the end of the line is still the “Last Resort.” The sun still shines, the Gulf Stream still flows, and palms still wave in the island’s balmy breezes. Tourists and sports fishermen still descend, the colonies of writers and artists endure, and Hemingway’s house on Whitehead has become a museu
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Palin kept looking for a second act that never came. She suffered the pathetic fate of being a celebrity ahead of her time. For with her candidacy something new came into our national life that was also traditional. She was a western populist who embodied white identity politics. In her proud ignorance, unrestrained narcissism, and contempt for the
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
THE DIALECTIC OF ORDINARY DISASTER Once or twice each decade, Hawaii sends Los Angeles a big, wet kiss. Sweeping far south of its usual path,