my favorite reads of 2025
The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age
Extremely Online and Incredibly Tedious
Stop Calling My Daughter Pretty
Taylor Swift Is The 21st Century's Most Disorienting Pop Star
No Good Art Comes From Greed
AirPods Are a Tragedy
Only Fads: A Culture (and Economy) of Labubu
As a mother to teen daughters, I'm not that concerned about Sabrina Carpenter's influence (...but I am about Gracie Abrams)
Taylor Swift is not the English teacher she wants you to think she is
The Secret Society of Lightning Strike Survivors
Less TikTok, More Screaming
The era of QAnon capitalism
Puritanism took over online fandom — and then came for the rest of the internet
Scapegoating the Algorithm
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
How Wellness and Beauty Influencers Can Be Part of an Alt-Right Pipeline for Teen Girls
Ruins in Reverse
The “Disney adult” industrial complex
A lot of y'all aren't woke, just assholes
Comedy’s Safest Slur
ChatGPT Shaming Is Making Our Writing So Much Worse
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner
Is The Love Song Dying?
Hot subpoena summer
The Old Guard That Never Was (And Why That’s a Good Thing)














