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I followed my election-season bafflement all the way to the inside of Jubilee, whose empire of hot-topic debate videos explain a ton about the total cultural realignment we're living through: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Righteous upstarts took the spotlight; Millennial stars seemed like elder statesmen; the Rolling Stones won off camera. These Grammys were very different, writes Spencer Kornhaber: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Interesting halftime show! Here's what Kendrick Lamar was definitely saying, and sorta kinda saying, and definitely not saying: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Civilization 7: same addiction, with all new dread! theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Happy release day to Jeremy Gordon, my dear friend who always asks me to be a little more honest with myself and a little more bitchy to others. I’ve looked up to him and his writing for 15 years and it’s all led to this, his amazing debut novel —> harpercollins.com/products/see-f…

The artist formerly known as Kanye West thinks this is a great time for a comeback—and he may be right, Spencer Kornhaber writes. Ye is testing how numb America has become to shock tactics: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

The artist formerly known as Kanye West thinks this is a great time for a comeback—and he may be right, Spencer Kornhaber writes. Ye is testing how numb America has become to shock tactics: theatln.tc/TP8YUESA

I did *not* describe Lady Gaga's Mayhem as a 'Proustian pop opus'—but I could have! theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Lady Gaga’s latest album is more than just a gutsy return to form. It’s also “a warm, strangely moving collection about the passage of time,” writes Spencer Kornhaber: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Playboi Carti, the most influential rapper of his generation, sounds like he isn’t saying much. But there’s a story to his music, Spencer Kornhaber writes: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Sophie Gilbert is one of the most brilliant writers I've ever known. Her latest is extraordinary and essential—she stitches together so much, over a period of American culture that is not yet properly understood. An article I'll be thinking about for years.theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Trump’s second term has made it even clearer how video-game culture is bleeding into everyday politics, writes Spencer Kornhaber: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

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Last year, Spencer Kornhaber visited the music historian Ted Gioia to talk about civilization’s death. “Music is turning into a rights-management business,” he told Kornhaber—and it’s destroying true artistry. Has America’s creative energy really been sapped? theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

New pod: The rise of "dopamine culture" and the decline of pop culture in America First, I discuss the Ted Gioa's argument that pop culture is being turned into a virtual casino of the mind that is better at producing reward-seeking behavior than quality art. Then, I talk to

Today on Studio 2: Does pop culture kinda suck now? Or has our nostalgia-tinged pessimism just been sent into overdrive? We discuss with Spencer Kornhaber from the Atlantic (Spencer Kornhaber). Tune in at noon on WHYY or You Tube: youtube.com/watch?v=fvPNYU…

"There’s a lot of fists in the air in our culture, and I’m a little fatigued in the arm area." I spoke with Ezra Furman about protest music, defeat music, and life as a trans person right now— theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

The fact that people need to speculate unfounded rumors about Diddy shows that to the general public, his alleged abuse of women isn't egregious enough. It has to be a widespread cabal of gay pedophilia on the level of QAnon. Good Spencer Kornhaber piece theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…