What we are reading on August 20, 2026
Disturbing news from the manosphere and all the news that got my attention this week.
Frank Beard, ZZ Top’s Hard-Shuffling Drummer, Dead at 77
Frank Beard, ZZ Top’s hard-shuffling drummer who performed with the group for more than 55 years, has died at age 77.
Jon Blistein
Face Value: Why ‘Looksmaxxing’ Is More Than Mewing and Mirrors
“What looksmaxxing really reveals is not a failure of individual young men, but a failure of everything around them,” writes Fay Bound-Alberti.
Fay Bound-Alberti
Parting Shot
Stormy Kay was born in 1961, when her parents were young newlyweds, unprepared and thrust into adulthood. Stormy’s mother cut meat at a grocery store and taught classes at a beauty school, and her father was a construction worker. They couldn’t afford child care, so Stormy’s father took her with him to job sites. “My […]
Mike Spies
Rachel Aviv: Mother and Daughter | Broadcast
An interview with the author of <i>Strangers to Ourselves</i>—and now, <i>You Won’t Get Free of It</i>.
Lucy McKeon
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