Where Did ‘Let Them’ Come From?
Years before Mel Robbins published her best-selling self-help book, a struggling writer posted a poem with a similar message.
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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat
For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.
A Beguiling Film About the Downsides of Pop Stardom
Mother Mary offers a spooky spin on what it takes to stay famous.
Is Hurry the Great Enemy of Spiritual Life?
Pastor John Mark Comer has won a massive audience by encouraging his followers to free themselves from the gnawing sense that there is always more to do.
Steven Soderbergh’s Strange, Surprising Heist Movie
The Christophers starts as the tale of a forgery, but ends as an intimate meditation on art.
Ye Wants Your Forgiveness. So What?
The former Kanye West is making his bid to rejoin mainstream culture—with mixed results.
Masterpieces of the New Deal
Critics wrote the work off as kitsch for the masses. But a set of murals celebrating Social Security—now threatened with destruction—show that such sweeping judgments went too far.
The Artemis Astronauts Are Studs
Strength, courage, expertise, wonder: NASA’s moon-mission crew has reset the bar for greatness.
Maybe You’ll Never Really Know Who You’re Marrying
The fear of commitment transforms The Drama from a romance into a horror story.
The Literary Job AI Can’t Replace
Ghostwriting is good, actually—when it’s done by humans.
Scrubs Has a Sneakily Radical Vision of Male Friendship
The return of TV’s best bromance comes at an uncertain time for relationships between men.
The NBA Isn’t the Same for Everyone
Jaden Ivey’s split with the Chicago Bulls was a brutal reminder of how professional sports often work.
Who Is Black Comedy For?
A new book is nostalgic for the ’90s. But the era of crossover success was not necessarily the pinnacle of Black comedic achievement.
What the Astronauts See That Trump Cannot
Pictures of the Earth from the Artemis II mission offer a sense that humans are united. If only a bellicose president could feel the same.