Special Series
Reality: A Post-Mortem
An essay series on why everyone but you is going insane
An essay series by Jon Askonas, politics professor at the Catholic University of America, on what killed consensus reality — and what’s coming next. The series began in our Spring 2022 issue and is ongoing.
Scoring points, hunting for clues, building plotlines, revealing the Grand Narrative... Why are people acting like the national fracture is fun?
A world of authentic, post-spin journalism: The dream Jon Stewart spent a decade making real is now America’s waking nightmare. What did he get so wrong?
Here lies a beloved friend of social harmony (ca. 1500–2000). It was nice while it lasted.
