Max Strasser

Trump has turned the delicate practice of peacemaking into a business for a select few stakeholders who are bound together by a thicket of financial affiliations and conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/m...

I reviewed @mollycrabapple.bsky.social 's terrific new history of the Bund — a great read but more importantly, a book that could not have arrived at a more urgent moment. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/b...

You can trace a faint line from trucker hats and skinny jeans to the Groypers. Read the brilliant @jenszalai.bsky.social's review essay on @wdavidmarx.bsky.social's new book www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...

Can universal human rights protect your brain from Elon Musk's implants or do we need something else ... or is it too late? The latest from the brilliant Linda Kinstler: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/m...

Why are so many business leaders caving to Donald Trump? Because of the collapse of "the establishment," which had many good consequences and at least one dubious one: corporate America is no longer very good at collective action. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

The inimitable Parul Sehgal on the the reckoning that is now underway: The child art star speaks. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/m...

What do Mehdi Hasan, Andrew Tate, and Bonnie Blue have in common? They all participate in the fan gangbang, an uncannily literal evolution of the parasocial style that defines modern life online www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/s...

Jia Lynn Yang on how the Democratic Party forgot how to do politics www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...

I wrote about something that's contested nowadays: empathy.

I wish only I could have made room for Father John Misty's "I'm Writing a Novel." But I wrote about novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...

Must read! An in-depth look at the Heritage Foundation's detailed plan to criminalize and suppress the Palestine solidarity movement in the United States, now being put into action by the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...