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James Kirchick


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All That Is Solid Melts into Theory

How did a once obscure academic notion called “gender identity” triumph over material reality? Credit—or blame—Judith Butler

Armie Hammer Breaks His Silence: Coda

Two years ago, allegations of rape destroyed the actor’s career. This week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office dropped its case against him

Church and State

Armie Hammer Breaks His Silence

Two years after some of the most shocking allegations of the #MeToo era lit up the Internet and destroyed his career, the actor has finally decided to tell his side of the story

The View from Here

What drives Trump? More than racism, power, or even greed, it’s an insatiable hunger for fame

Love and War

Advise & Consent is rightly remembered as a classic Washington movie. It was also an important—if complicated—moment in gay history

The Great Gay Way

More Is More

Skyhorse will seemingly publish anything, from the conspiracist screeds of Roger Stone and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the canceled essays of Norman Mailer

Guilt by Orientation

In JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, Oliver Stone continues his three-decade slander of an innocent man—one who, not coincidentally, happened to be gay

The View from Here

Bernard-Henri Lévy will never give up on hopeless causes

Origin Story

How a self-published investigation into the possibility of a “lab leak” upended groupthink about the coronavirus

Et Tu, A.C.L.U.?

How America’s staunchest defenders of free speech lost their nerve

It’s Complicated