The fatphobic movement co-opted by IG models and fashion labels to reject bodies it should celebrate. By Bethany Rutter.

Please do not buy into her bullshit. By Yvette d'Entremont.

Katy Perry featuring Skip Marley

During this year’s Black History Month, the #BlackLivesMatter folks rolled out, in partnership with OneUnited Bank, their officially branded #BlackLivesMatter debit card, which features the striking portrait of “Amir,” an African boy flanked by the iconic images of 1968 Olympians Tommie John and John Carlos, fists in the air… By Bruce A. Dixon.

The Male Gaze of Hipster Spaces. By Emma Pitman.

In the last century, originality has killed one once-flourishing art form after another, by replacing variation within shared artistic conventions to rebellion. The impact of German Romantics on the artist. By Michael Lind.

Which objects would you choose to tell the story of your life? By Gemma Carney.

What use is there today for one of the oldest virtues? By Joe Pinsker.

More time at home with the family isn't a bad excuse. By Jeffrey Kaplan.

From Eliot to Steiner, Debord to Martel, Some Ideas on the Death of Meaning. By Mario Vargas Llosa. (Sept. 6, 2016)

As the practice of mindfulness is packaged and peddled, it’s hard not to wonder if something essential is being lost. By David Gelles.