The Roast Is Done

from UnHerd The age of the comedy roast is over Satirical annihilation has become a sanitised ritual BY OLIVER BATEMAN The spotlight beams down on the stage, illuminating the faces of the evening’s celebrities, who are seated in a semicircle like ancient oracles of...

Snootyshack

from Golf Digest The stuffiest country club stories we’ve ever heard Golf has made progress in loosening up, but at some clubs old habits persist. By Sam Weinman One story that best encapsulates country club point-missing has circulated for years. The setting is...

Djoko!

from Spiked Djokovic’s revenge How the tennis champ stuck it to the lockdown elites. by BRENDAN O’NEILL Revenge, it seems, is best served with a powerhouse forehand. That’s what Novak Djokovic did at the US Open yesterday. After three hours and 16 minutes of the...

Riding The Zephyr

from InsideHook What It’s Like to Watch America Roll by on the California Zephyr Transcontinental, (almost) 3,000 miles from home BY ROBERT ANNIS I first learned about the California Zephyr from a song by Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar, who, in turn, were...