Culture

In our latest installment of Post-Truth Hottakes, here's one that's been rattling around everyone's newsfeeds this month...and it provides some teachable moments on how we're making sense of things these days, and how we can hopefully do it a little better.

Today's a good day to reflect on the strange and curious customs surrounding the Mating Game, and to understand with clear eyes what's exactly at stake, and who's pulling whose strings.

Just got back from a whirlwind trip to NYC which was maybe the most fun I've ever had in that bustling town.Consider this an update instead of live tweeting or oversharing on social media along the way––just can't bring myself to interrupt real life for nattering about it in digital.

Last week, I took a swing at un-ironic communication. I laid out my wobbly efforts to make sense of this Whole Shooting Match called modern life, and did my best to remove any ironic distance in speaking it truly. But later on, I began to think "you know, irony is actually amazing, essential in some cases––we'd be dead on arrival without it."