_cultural critique ⁽²⁾

For nearly three decades, popular culture has treated Friends and Sex and the City as sacred relics of television history. They are streamed, quoted, revived, and endlessly referenced as if their perfection were self-evident. To question them feels almost heretical…

Few societies in history have displayed such a constant and insistent need to produce heroes as the United States. It is not enough for an event to take place, nor for people to act with courage or competence. In the…