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44 articles 2017–2018

How Gawker Was Defeated

Dylan Croll · April 3, 2018

When Terry Bollea walked to the front of the courtroom on the fourth floor of the Pinellas County courthouse on March 7, 2016, he was just a shadow of the man he used to be—the man the world knew him as: wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan. Orthopedic surgeries had reduced his once-plucky stride to a…

'Queer Eye' Maps a Cure for Our Masculinity Crisis

Alice B. Lloyd · April 2, 2018

It shouldn't take the popularity of Jordan Peterson or the presidency of Donald Trump to tell us masculinity has been in a bad place. Better evidence abounds. Look no further than long term demographic decline concurrent with the culturally ascendent denial of gender differences. Or consider the…

Remembering Jean Stein, 1934-2017

Lee Smith · May 3, 2017

Jean Stein, author and editor, took her own life earlier this week when she leapt from the balcony of her Upper East Side apartment. Friends described her as depressed. She was 83, and leaves behind her two daughters, Wendy vanden Heuvel, an actress and producer, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor…