Culture

American Crime Story: The People vs OJ Simpson's Marcia Clark episode was a master class in the effect of misogynist aggression in the public sphere.

The Replacements are a really, really great band: Hazlitt contributors investigate. 

From R. Kelly to Bill Cosby, sexual abuse by public figures is often ignored by fans in order to keep the illusion of what they create alive. 

Listening to a man you yourself find funny laugh at jokes you don’t get is, in retrospect, a master class in learning to read social cues.

Following allegations of abuse, we often have conversations about “separating art from the artist.” But what if said art helped you through your own assault?

Bowie was the one who alerted me to pop as a medium, its shimmering fields of plastic. Even his most mercenary projects were sincere in the gesture’s moment.

Listening to Bowie gave you the strength to be strange. 

Bowie was a suave enigma who never quite cared about connecting—it hardly seems appropriate to mourn him as a flesh and blood human being. Yet the music he leaves behind has a life of its own.

Gus Van Sant's 1995 adaptation of Joyce Maynard's novel revolved around self-control under observation. Two decades later, it feels both prescient and all the more relevant.