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Lauren Michele Jackson

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
5
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Sep 2, 2026
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Jul 15, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Lauren Michele Jackson

    Taking In the Scene at Daisy Chain Fields, the Zoomer Lilith Fair (opens the original)

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    A music festival ostensibly unfurls itself for music fans, but the experience of one can give lovers cause for doubt. Its contemporary format impresses, firstly, as an altar to capital. Tickets are priced at tiers that smell extortionate, and are won by either facing off with bots or succumbing to the—actually extortionate—resale market. And the sell doesn’t end there, what with the soaring concession prices and the branded outposts that one must dodge before hearing a single note. God-wrought a

  2. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Lauren Michele Jackson

    The Real Meaning of the Jason Arday Scandal (opens the original)

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    A couple of years ago, a self-styled “race-realist” named Nathan Cofnas wrote a blog post about racial difference. His dogma was well trodden, minus the usual antisemitism (Cofnas was raised Jewish), including the pronouncement that, in a meritocratic world, “Blacks would disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment.” That sort of thing. The post roused enough attention that Emmanuel College, Cambridge, released Cofnas from his post as a research associate

  3. Article · Aug 8, 2026 · Lauren Michele Jackson

    Ariana Grande and the Disappointment of Diagnosis (opens the original)

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    Let’s say it in unison: this isn’t helping. By “this,” we mean commentary, though I prefer “criticism,” an enterprise that, in its contemporary incarnation, is given to analyzing public figures as one would a work of art. For anyone asking whether this kind of analysis—unequal parts interpretation, speculation, and evaluation—will save a worrying figure, the query imparts its own futility. Criticism parses well but advocates poorly; it is diagnostic but seldom curative. Critics, lay and professi

  4. Article · Jul 26, 2026 · Lauren Michele Jackson

    “Padam Padam” Separates the Party People from the Homebodies (opens the original)

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    Are there two Americas, too many Americas, not enough? The plaint changes with the day. Identity is a serpentine target on the dance floor—a place where, in its most romantic evocation, how you catch a groove and to what says something about who you like to fuck and how. And if you haven’t danced lately (and, no, weddings don’t count) then oof. Or maybe you’re straight—the kind of straight person who saw the club and its music as a means to the end we call marriage, coupledom. Some wee

  5. Article · Jul 15, 2026 · Lauren Michele Jackson

    How Mary Kay Built an Empire Out of Other Women’s Dreams (opens the original)

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    The go-getter woman needs a better alibi, or else to quit telling stories. Is that Kamala Harris, peeping out from beneath her collapsed tent, smugly threatening the American people with another run? Harris cannot read a room, apparently, but then there’s always the point at which a go-getter woman, like her male analogues in government or business—not that, in our era, these institutions are much distinguished—grows unaccustomed to spaces unpeopled with acolytes. Were she inclined to take

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