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What the Ted Lasso Way doesn’t get about women in sports

Six years ago, “Ted Lasso” reminded us that many winning TV shows are the result of the right sentiment landing at the right time — or, in this case, a terrible time. In 2020, the weight of pandemic lockdowns and…

August 7, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Fauci is an easy scapegoat for pandemic revisionists 

Dr. Anthony Fauci is under congressional scrutiny following an appearance before a Senate committee last week, in which the former National Institutes of Health immunologist was grilled by elected officials over his response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Thursday, the…

August 6, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

“Watchmen” is a brutally provocative reckoning of alternate history

On May 31, 1921, an armed white mob poured into Tulsa, Oklahoma’s majority African-American Greenwood district and began setting it ablaze. Families were driven out of their homes at gunpoint as their neighbors looted their belongings and burned their property…

August 6, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Power, respect and conscience: How the women of “Fargo” manage (up) in a man’s world

“This is not a story about a woman who made the best of traditional skills . . . This is the ‘woman’s pluck’ story, the dust-bowl story, the burying-your-child-on-the-trail story, the I-will-never-go-hungry-again story, the Mildred Pierce story, the story about…

August 6, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

“The Shards” is oozing with Bret Easton Ellis vibes

White drugs. Underage drinking. Absentee parents. Nonstop parties. Oh, to be a rich teenager in the 1980s, says “The Shards” in so many words. Too many, I’d say, but slapping droning voiceovers atop expository visuals isn’t for me. Piling too…

August 6, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

SpaceX’s rocket trashes the moon

A version of this essay first appeared in Crash Course, Salon’s free morning newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this, plus more of Salon’s bold journalism on how policies, movements and culture wars affect real people. The moon has…

August 6, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Why “Chef’s Table” still matters

When Netflix announced the first-ever Chef’s Table Food Festival, bringing 70 internationally acclaimed chefs to Park City for four days of dinners, demonstrations and excursions, I felt something between excitement and apprehension. The series changed the way I understood food.…

August 6, 2026 · by Jamie Cook · 0

The end of looking away from violence on social media

Perez Hilton always wanted to be famous. This is a statement of fact and not meant to make light of his self-harming incident broadcast via TikTok livestream on Tuesday—quite the opposite. Videos and images of Hilton, 48, covered in blood…

August 6, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Why “Revolver” still matters: The 50th anniversary of a Beatles masterpiece

Even if you scorn Boomer myth-making, the 50th anniversary of “Revolver” — perhaps the Beatles’ best album — is a big deal. It not only sent the band in a new direction, it showed new possibilities in rock music. Look…

August 5, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

At 60, The Beatles’ “Revolver” is still unfolding its secrets

For folks who spend the majority of their waking hours contemplating the music of The Beatles — and there are probably vastly more of us than you might think — “Revolver” (released on August 5, 1966, in the United Kingdom)…

August 5, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0