Joseph Bernstein

July 20, 2025

Popular Podcasts Like Joe Rogan and Theo Von Are All Video Now. Who Is Watching?

An audio-only medium spawned a giant industry that is now largely focused on video. The following are the runtimes of some recent episodes of several of […]
July 16, 2025

Are You Watching Video Podcasts?

The New York Times wants to know how people are consuming this relatively new kind of content. What even is a podcast these days? For years […]
June 25, 2025

Forget Therapy. Do Men Need Book Clubs?

For the first meeting of his book club for men, Yahdon Israel, a 35-year-old senior editor at Simon & Schuster, asked the participants to bring a […]
March 28, 2025

Kristi Noem’s Rolex at El Salvador Prison Draws Attention

Kristi Noem’s trip to a prison in El Salvador drew social media attention for the homeland security secretary’s choice to wear a gold Rolex in such […]
December 12, 2023

Praxis Founder Dryden Brown’s Utopian Visions

When he took the stage at a conference for “start-up societies” in Amsterdam in October, 27-year-old Dryden Brown cut a rumpled figure, moving stiffly in a […]
November 6, 2023

What Is ‘Looksmaxxing’?

“Looksmaxxers” are a booming online community creating new terms for age-old insecurities. Skin-care routines, hair care, a good night’s sleep: These are not cutting-edge suggestions for […]
September 21, 2023

Ethan Hawke Makes Peace With Being a Poster Boy for Gen X

At the Center for Fiction, the actor was joined by the author Rachel Kushner and the editor Christopher Beha for a panel discussion of Harper’s Magazine’s […]
September 20, 2023

Julia Allison, Pioneering Influencer, Finds Love With Law Scholar Noah Feldman

Who would have guessed that the former New York media obsession Julia Allison and the law scholar Noah Feldman would make a great couple? One afternoon […]
July 6, 2023

Welcome to the Age of the Cage Match

These days, powerful men want to beat one another. Literally. Call it the melee of the middle-aged men. We already know the main event. That would […]
June 16, 2023

The Dad Canon (Circa Now)

In the spring of 2020, a few months after we became parents, my wife asked what I wanted for Father’s Day. Being a dad still had […]