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Hayek, the Accidental Freudian

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In November, 1977, on a still-sticky evening along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, the Austrian economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek boarded a flight bound for Chile and settled into his seat in first…

“Last Summer” Is a Ferocious Vision of Sexual Frenzy

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A decade ago, when the Wolfie Wars were being fought—with critics charging that Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” condoned the exuberant protagonist’s stock-market fraud—I averred that any viewer who…

“The Bear” Is Overstuffed and Undercooked

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the third season of “The Bear,” released this week on Hulu, a fine-dining luminary named David imparts to his protégé, Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), the secret to culinary greatness:…

The Writing on Joe Biden’s Face at the Presidential Debate

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The next-day freakout, livid as the most regrettable hangover, over President Joe Biden’s performance in Thursday night’s debate, has largely focussed, understandably, on words. Too many times, Biden’s sentences meandered outward…

The Man Who Could Paint Loneliness

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Heinrich von Kleist, the German writer, once said that looking at a seascape by Caspar David Friedrich was like having your eyelids cut off. You were staring directly at death, at…

Family Bonds Protect a Trans Teen in Texas

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Love to the Max.” One day in late February of 2022, Amber Briggle received a phone call from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. It was a caseworker,…