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On some very late homework

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That shrinking feeling

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Chris Jones

Chris Jones is a former staff writer at Esquire and a contributor to The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.

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Dens of Iniquity

Rick Westhead reports from centre ice March 2026
During last year’s eight-week Hockey Canada criminal trial in London, Ontario, when five former junior players stood accused of group sexual assault against a woman known as E. M., the TSN investigative journalist Rick Westhead was turned upon by a large man outside a courthouse elevator. “This is all his fault,” he screamed as he pointed a finger in Westhead’s…

Once upon a Time in New York

The world as Lorne Michaels and Graydon Carter made it October 2025
Lorne Michaels likes to say, “The history of New York is written by out-of-towners.” Susan Morrison, in her affectionate biography, Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, writes that Toronto-born Michaels credits the line to Harold Ross. The founding editor of The New Yorker was, in fact, from Colorado. Morrison, who today is the articles editor at Ross’s now ancient…