When Is It Okay to Laugh During War? In defense of jest, here’s how humor plays an important role in survival.

Punishment Never Works, A guest newsletter on the Taliban and how America failed the women of Afghanistan.

A Bulwark Holiday Gift Guide, For all your last-minute shopping needs.

Simone Biles Isn’t Fearless. That’s A Good Thing. By demanding robotic perfection, Biles’s detractors are denying her humanity.

The Georgia Shootings and America’s Misogyny Crisis, Opposition to the Violence Against Women Act is part of larger Republican hypocrisy about masculinity, guns, and hatred of women.

We Get The Cryptocurrency Assets We Deserve, an explainer on NFTs.

How David Hockney Trolled the ‘New Yorker’, Saying a work is purposefully bad doesn’t make it good.

Peaceful Protesters were Tear-Gassed so Trump Could Have a Photo Op, thoughts on the president’s Rose Garden speech declaring the riots over without addressing systemic police brutality.

Picnic at Hanging Rock is the Perfect Quarantine Novel, Why you should be reading classic Australian literature in quarantine.

In Defense of Meme-ing Edward Hopper, The case for why we are, in fact, all like lonely paintings during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

What to Read During a Pandemic, a list of 15 books and essay recommendations for The Bulwark

A Burnt and Fruitless Garden, a review of Jenny Offill’s WEATHER for The New Criterion

Blessings of the Post-Gaffe World, a column on Joe Biden and the humanity of presidential candidates for The Bulwark

Dealing with the Devil: A Story Collection for the Age of Anxiety, a review of Karen Russell’s ORANGE WORLD for The Bulwark

Angry Kitsch, a review of Jon McNaughton’s art for The Weekly Standard

A Symphony of Silence, a review of Emily Ruskovich’s IDAHO for The Weekly Standard