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The atlantic offers hot takes for highbrows

Institutionally, The Atlantic seems to be moving on from those pieces as its bread and butter, and moving towards “hot takes for highbrows:” takes on culture, medicine, religion, politics, and more that lack critical substance but use the veneer of thorough journalism to cater to an elite (or elite-chasing) audience. 

the bear season 3: Where’s the beef?

The third season could more accurately be viewed as a half season that initiates plots that will come full circle in the end. In a similar way, season one was really an extended pilot episode for everything that came after it and was more than the sum of its parts. Season three is just-so, neither excelling nor faceplanting. It is a set-up job that can only be viewed as one half of whatever comes next.

How covid changed the trading card market

The trading card market exploded early in the pandemic as people capitalized on their nostalgia and sought alternative forms of investment — safe harbors that would keep their assets safe and appreciate over time.