CheshireMar 10
The Captivating Derangement of the Looksmaxxing Movement | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-captivating-derangement-of-the-looksmaxxing-movement
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The Captivating Derangement of the Looksmaxxing Movement

Becca Rothfeld writes about “looksmaxxing,” the practice of intensively optimizing one’s appearance, led by influencers like Clavicular, Rorz, and Nocturnal Kent.

The New Yorker
CheshireFeb 10
The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-death-of-book-world
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The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post

Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, writes about the death of the paper’s books section.

The New Yorker
Steve Randy WaldmanJan 7, 2025
"The ultimate function of the entrepreneurial ethic was (and is) to reconcile workers to precarity." #BeccaRothfeld (@heideggirl?) reviewing #ErikBaker's "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/01/03/make-your-own-job-entrepreneurial-work-ethic-erik-baker-review/ ht @SteveRoth
The can-do spirit that undermines American workers

In “Make Your Own Job,” Erik Baker argues that we have been tricked into regarding personal resilience as the solution to structural injustice

The Washington Post
Paria sans portefeuilleAug 22, 2024

"So eager were critics and pundits to find an apologist for the White working class who was not blatantly racist that they overlooked #Vance’s fatuousness, his willingness to play up his hokeyness for the benefit of his liberal audience and the ultimate banality of his message."

#BeccaRothfeld on how #JDVance gulled liberals about #Appalachia with #HillbillyElegy, and on his Faustian bargain with Trumpism

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/23/hillbilly-elegy-jd-vance-vice-president-nominee-review/
#USpol #USpolitics #bootstrapism #PoorBashing #poverty #books

‘Hillbilly Elegy’ and J.D. Vance’s art of having it both ways

In his memoir and for some time after, Vance told liberals what they wanted to hear — but then he wanted power.

The Washington Post
MartieneMay 22, 2024
🔥#BeccaRothfeld - About #MarieKondoMadness and #MindfulnessAsBusiness to #NewPuritans and #Eroticism. On how minimalism has left our souls impoverished. A celebration for derangement, mess and appetite. #AllThingsAreTooSmall