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☆ On Campus, a New Social Litmus Test: Zionist or Not?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The two had been close enough that the roommate had come to the bar mitzvah of Ms. Fisher’s brother. Ms. Fisher thought she had been careful to avoid inflammatory posts, but the roommate, Ms. Fisher said, accused her of racism. Around the same time, Ms. Fisher noticed something else strange. When they were in the same room, Ms. Fisher said, the big wouldn’t make eye contact with her. Ms. Fisher said that her big often posted about Students for Justice in Palestine, the campus group that Columbia had suspended in November for violating campus policies.

Persons: Sophie Fisher, Fisher, Fisher’s, —, ” Organizations: Barnard College, for Justice, Columbia Locations: Israel, Palestine, Gaza

☆ Why Is This Seder Unlike All Other Seders?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Why was this Seder different from all other Seders? Start with the setup: a glittering table set for 100, running the length of a drafty warehouse in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Also unlike most seders, this one, on Thursday night (before the start of the holiday), featured a D.J. Guests at the Seder and past parties have included Brett Gelman, the actor; Samantha Ronson, the D.J. ; Richard Kind, the actor; Chi Ossé, the Brooklyn city councilman; and the actor David Schwimmer.

Persons: York influencers, Elijah, Brett Gelman, Samantha Ronson, Richard Kind, Chi Ossé, David Schwimmer Locations: Bushwick, Brooklyn, York

Dana White’s diplomatic ambitions were clear, if complicated: Un-cancel Bud Light. As the chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Mr. White was the arena-filling, Trump-loving, perpetually smirking public face of a multi-billion-dollar sport. more than 15 years earlier, was plainly hoping that a renewed affiliation might help its cause. Publicly, Mr. White appealed to friends across the conservative media, defending Bud Light’s parent company in interviews with Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk. “The fact that Anheuser-Busch wants to be in business with me?” Mr. White said, arguing that this alone demonstrated the success of the backlash.

Persons: Dana, Bud, White, ’, —, Bud Light, Bud Light’s, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, “, Mr Organizations: Trump, Anheuser, Busch

☆ She Issued a Call to ‘#MakeJewishBabies.’ Some Are Taking It Seriously.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Marrying a Jewish man — and having Jewish children — wasn’t a top priority for Irina Barskaya. Despite pressure from her mother and her older sister, Ms. Barskaya, a 33-year-old hair and makeup artist from Brooklyn, said that in her search for Mr. Scrolling through social media between clients at the Midwood salon where she works, Ms. Barskaya found herself in tears at reports of the Hamas attacks on Israelis, in which about 1,200 people were killed, according to the authorities. As the scale of the killings became clear in the following days, Ms. Barskaya thought of her family and friends in Israel, and felt a new resolve to reproduce with another Jew. “There’s not a lot of us in the world,” Ms. Barskaya said.

Persons: — wasn’t, Irina Barskaya, Barskaya, “, “ There’s, Ms, ” Organizations: Washington , D.C, Israel Locations: Brooklyn, Israel, Washington ,, Gaza

☆ Hark, the Millennial Death Wail
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

While it’s true that the generation born in the years from 1981 to 1996 is getting older — as is the way of all life — we are obviously not actually old, except by the stretch of our own fevered imaginations. Millennials are currently between 28 and 43, which means a significant number of us are still too young to run for president. A 36-year-old is smack dab in the middle of the generational cohort, falling well within the psychologist Erik Erikson’s “early adulthood” stage of psychosocial development. Even if we grant that there are real things making millennials feel creaky — the traditional milestones of adulthood met or not met, the 20th anniversary of “Mean Girls” and the confusing craze for Stanley water bottles — there is something a bit odd about calling so much attention to our own generational obsolescence.

Persons: Erik Erikson’s “, creaky

☆ For ‘Barbie’ Fans Online, a Bitterly Ironic Oscar Snub
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the 2024 Oscar nominations were announced this morning, the snubs of the two most prominent women involved in “Barbie” — the director, Greta Gerwig, and the lead actress, Margot Robbie — became the breakout story. The top-grossing film of 2023, passing the $1 billion mark worldwide, is based on the imagined life and times of the iconic Mattel doll. A cultural phenomenon on its own terms, “Barbie,” along with “Oppenheimer,” became half of an unusually thoughtful summer blockbuster duo released on the same day in July (“Barbenheimer”): nothing to sneeze at. “Let me see if I understand this: the Academy nominated ‘Barbie’ for Best Picture (eight nominations total) — a film about women being sidelined and rendered invisible in patriarchal structures — but not the woman who directed the film. Okay then,” read a viral X post by the writer Charlotte Clymer.

Persons: “ Barbie ”, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie —, “ Barbie, “ Oppenheimer, ”, ‘ Barbie ’, —, Charlotte Clymer, Gerwig, Noah Baumbach, Ryan Gosling, Gosling, Ken, “ We’re, Jodi Lipper Organizations: Mattel, America Locations: Barbieland

☆ Opinion | Congress Isn’t a Schoolyard. Time to Deal With Toxic Immaturity.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The set-to between Mullin and O’Brien wasn’t the only incident of its kind in Congress this week. And though it may go without saying, what’s good for the basest kind of political entertainment isn’t necessarily good for Congress, the country as a whole or young men. I don’t have boys, but I know that by several measures, they are floundering compared to American girls. I don’t mean that in a “Won’t somebody please think of the children” kind of way. I just don’t think we can be a functional society if this becomes the new norm.

Persons: Joseph Bernstein, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, it’s “, Mullin, O’Brien, Robert Jimison, Donald Trump, Gen, ” Sanders, Let’s, It’s, “ Organizations: Pew Research, Congress Locations: ”, United States

☆ She Pioneered Internet Fame, He Helped Draft a Constitution. Now They’re in Love.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Still, there was an acculturation process — particularly for Mr. Feldman, who is not really the dance-like-no-one-is-watching type. To begin with, Ms. Allison was immersed in a scene, centered on Burning Man, about which Mr. Feldman knew nothing. “Many of Julia’s friends have jobs I didn’t know existed until I met Julia,” Mr. Feldman said. “To say Noah was having trepidation about Burning Man would be a major understatement,” Ms. Allison said. If you’re going to be with me, you have to go to Burning Man.

Persons: Feldman, Allison, Julia, ” Mr, Purple, ”, Noah, Ms, Clifford Geertz, Mr, revel, aren’t, “, Allison’s Locations: Bali, cryptocurrency, Ubud, Cambridge, Boston, Nevada

☆ A New Role for Werner Herzog: the Voice of A.I. Poetry
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If artificial intelligence had a voice, what would it sound like? Calm, like HAL 9000? For the editors of “I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks,” a collection of poems generated by A.I., the answer was obvious: Werner Herzog. The 80-year-old German director, actor and author is a titan of independent cinema whose films often concern the hubris and folly of humankind. His speaking voice, known to audiences mostly through the stark, literary voice-over narration that accompanies many of his documentaries, carries an existential pathos and Teutonic gravitas that have made it a pop culture trademark.

Persons: Werner Herzog, Brent Katz, Josh Morgenthau, Simon Rich, Herzog Organizations: HAL, Artificial Intelligence

☆ Opinion | ‘Huberman Husbands,’ ‘Bro Diets’ and the ‘Masculine’ Branding of Fitness Culture
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It started with a suspicious green sludge at the bottom of our drinking glasses. I kept finding evidence of this murky, grassy sediment when I was unloading the dishwasher, and I asked my husband if he knew where it came from. He said something like, “Oh, that’s Athletic Greens” — a supplement powder that includes dehydrated fruits, vegetables and grains that you mix with water. And I would also hear him mention “zone 2” exercising — which, as a runner, I honestly wanted to know more about. (You can peruse mixed reviews on greens powders’ benefits here and here.)

Persons: Andrew Huberman, Canon, Joseph Bernstein, Huberman, Goop, ”, he’s Organizations: that’s Athletic Greens, Stanford, Athletic Greens

☆ Why Won’t Simon Ateba Stop Shouting?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

(Mr. Ateba currently has a “hard pass,” which confers regular access to White House grounds. After the meeting, which Mr. Ateba recalled as being cordial, Ms. Psaki did call on him during a briefing, on Sept. 1, 2021. Mr. Ateba asked a friendly question about whether Mr. Biden’s detractors should apologize for calling him “sleepy.”What followed, Mr. Ateba said, were several amicable months. Ms. Psaki and Mr. Ateba met privately again. As their briefing room exchange made the rounds on Twitter, Fox News invited Mr. Ateba to appear on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”“I wondered, is it in my best interest?” Mr. Ateba recalled.

Persons: Ateba, don’t, Biden, Psaki, Biden’s, Dr, Anthony Fauci, Mr, Ms, “ It’s, “ Tucker Carlson, “, Jesse Watters, Trump Organizations: White House, Twitter, Fox News Locations: United States, Africa, Asia, Europe, South Africa

☆ Welcome to the Age of the Cage Match
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

That would be Elon Musk versus Mark Zuckerberg in Las Vegas, or maybe the Colosseum in Rome. The rival tech billionaires are inching toward a cage match, brokered by Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. And for an undercard, how about a sitting U.S. senator versus a union boss? In case that’s not enough testosterone, perhaps some feats of strength are in order. On Thursday, the Democratic representative of New York posted to Twitter a video of himself bench-pressing 405 pounds.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Dana White, Markwayne Mullin, Sean O’Brien, O’Brien, ”, Robert Kennedy Jr, Jeff Bezos, Jamaal Bowman Organizations: Elon, Oklahoma Republican, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Twitter, Democratic, New Locations: Las Vegas, Rome, Oklahoma, Venice Beach, New York

☆ The Dad Canon (Circa Now)
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | June | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

But to be honest, it didn’t really make me feel like a dad, let alone the number one dad. Neither had I), I’ve come to see the old dad ways a little more sympathetically, and with some measure of recognition. Still, the touchstones of Boomer dad culture have outlived their descriptive usefulness for younger generations. What, we might ask, is dad culture in 2023? Finally, the new dad culture has definitely not found it necessary to put away childish things.

Persons: gamely, didn’t, I’m, George W.S, Trow, I’ve, Boomer, —, There’s Organizations: Father’s, Star Locations: American

☆ Mark Zuckerberg Would Like You to Know About His Workouts
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Picture Mark Zuckerberg. Perhaps you envision the Meta boss and Facebook founder in a gray T-shirt, spotlighted on a Silicon Valley stage. Possibly Jesse Eisenberg, the bony actor who played the fledgling tycoon in “The Social Network” (2010), appears in your mind’s eye. But it’s unlikely you conjure anything like the image Mr. Zuckerberg posted to Instagram (which Meta owns) and Facebook on Monday. He also looks completely focused, like a guy in a Michael Bay movie who just finished a dangerous mission, or at least the Raya profile picture of the actor who plays that guy.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg, Zuckerberg, Michael Organizations: Social Network, Meta, Facebook

☆ Cool Tribal Tattoo. Is It From the ’90s?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Sometimes there will be a week of nothing but tribal,” said Mr. Bast, 30, whose long hair and neo-Deadhead style give him the look of an Online Ceramics model. Just as those seeking tribal tattoos 20 and 30 years ago were drawn to the aesthetics of an exoticized, ancient culture, so too are many of the new, Gen Z tribal fans: specifically, to the years 1997 to 2004, and their curious folkways. That is the cultural period Aesthetics Wiki defines as “Y2K,” an era that is in the process of being strip-mined by cool internet people under 30 for outfit ideas, design trends and general vibes. “The street culture pages on social media are relentless in the way they upload ’90s and 2000s content,” said Lewis James Dixon, who runs Cold Archive, a social media research firm and brand consultancy. For some of these customers — and some of the tattoo artists — a dash of authentic ’90s bad taste is the whole idea.

☆ And in This Corner, Hailing From Dagestan, Presenting Hasbulla
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks on March 17, Hasbulla Magomedov got the full celebrity treatment. He chatted pregame with the Mavericks star Luka Doncic, who posed with him for a photo. When Hasbulla’s face appeared on the Jumbotron, the crowd went wild. And, like everyone who’s anyone, he sat courtside at the Staples Center, with one major difference: He was perched on his friend’s lap. Hasbulla, 20, is a little over three feet tall, and it gave him a better view of the action.

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