Culture

Interrogating Alaa Aswany

I met the Egyptian literary great and was difficult with him. Every person of taste should immediately read all his books.

Aug 3 • Dan Perry

The Tech Titans Are Villains Now. Is It Unfair?

SUNDAY READ: Mountainhead, a movie about tech tycoons gone jargon-spewingly berserk, is a sign of the times

Jul 19 • Dan Perry

Soccer Is Too Uptight About Offside

SUNDAY READ: In Part II of our World Cup offering, we say the sport seems determined to protect fans from excitement

Jul 12 • Dan Perry

Soccer’s Clock Is Broken. It’s Time to Fix It.

SOCCER CEO JACK ANGELIDES WRITES: Stopping the clock when play stops would make the game fairer, eliminate time-wasting, and improve the spectacle…

Jul 7

Ghosts Over Berlin

The strange calm of a reunited city where the past is everywhere and nowhere

May 30 • Dan Perry

Getting Our Bearings

SUNDAY READ: How a language built at sea and forged in battle came to steer the world

May 17 • Dan Perry

Might Trump have gone too far in gloating over Reiner murder? Or is there really no limit at all to the slavishness of his cult?

Dec 16, 2025 • Dan Perry

10 Linguistic Atrocities Threatening Civilization

WEEKEND READ: It's just so strange that my pet peeves are not a global consensus. So I am launching my campaign for a global exorcism of the Top 10…

Nov 15, 2025 • Dan Perry

Why We Believe (or Pretend To)

Science, reason, and democracy challenged God — yet billions still cling to religious faith. Here’s why.

Oct 5, 2025 • Dan Perry

The Unraveling of Shared American Culture

Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension shows how authoritarian threats and a politically fractured market undermine satire, news, and America’s shared stage

Sep 18, 2025 • Dan Perry

The Ghost in the Machine

BACK-TO-SCHOOL ESSAY: How AI is killing take-home assignments and forcing education to rely on labs and tests

Sep 2, 2025 • Dan Perry

Across the Water: The Islands That Divide and Connect Greece and Turkey

TRAVELOGUE: Beneath the island calm of Kos lies a tempestuous past of massacres, forced migrations, and tales of empires lost

Aug 23, 2025 • Dan Perry

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