Polygamy is not something you try on a whim. You don't come home from work one day, pop open a beer, settle down for your nightly dose of Seinfeld reruns, and think, "Boy, my marriage is a bore. Maybe I should give polygamy a whirl." It's true that polygamy, as a concept, sounds downright inviting. Yes, there are lots of women involved, women of all shapes and sizes and personalities, a wonderful variety of women, and yes, they'll fulfill your every need, cook your dinner, do your laundry, sew the buttons on your shirts. And yes, you're allowed to sleep with these women, each of them, one for every night of the week if you want, and what's more, when you wake up in the morning, you won't have to deal with even the tiniest twinge of guilt, because these women, all of them, are your sweethearts, your soul mates, your wives. Then what, you're asking yourself, could possibly be the problem? The problem is this: Polygamy is not what you think it is. It has nothing to do with the little fantasy just spelled out for you. A life of polygamy is not a joyride, a guiltless sexual free-for-all. Being a polygamist is not for the easy going or the weak of heart. It's like marine boot camp or working for the mob; if you're not cut out for it, if you don't have that essential thing inside, it will eat you alive. And polygamy doesn't just require simple cojones, either. It requires the devotion of a monk, the diplomatic prowess of Winston Churchill, the doggedness of a field general, the patience of a pine tree. Put simply: You'd have to be crazy to want to be a polygamist. |
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| Jack White Is Calling From the Future |
At 47, Jack White's learned a few lessons. He's been one-half of the biggest band on the planet, a troubadour, a record label boss, and a tabloid fascination. A rock god, a husband—something he became again earlier this year when he got married on stage in Detroit—and a dad, now to teenagers. Age has made him more accepting, he says, even of negative things. In the middle of a year that saw him launch a massive world tour and drop two albums—Fear of the Dawn, out in April, Entering Heaven Alive, out today—Esquire caught up with White about returning to the road, antique conventions, and showbiz. |
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The Trump Recording Footage Shows a Man Made by TV Who Was Suddenly Trapped in It |
Toward the end of the January 6 Committee's not-so-final hearing Thursday night, the nation was shown an extended cut of Donald Trump's Rose Garden go home you're daddy's favorite brownshirts performance that day. It was genuinely disgusting, particularly in light of the new revelation that some of those who'd enabled Trump up to the point of fully trying to overthrow the government—but not quite!—had written into the script, "I am asking you to leave the Capitol Hill region NOW and go home in a peaceful way." But Trump insisted on going off the cuff. He told the rioters they were special and he loved them. A man who lost the popular election by 7 million votes, and the Electoral College 306 to 232, told his fanatics that he'd won in a landslide and it had been stolen away. "But you have to go home now," he added. |
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The Crypto Revolution Wants to Reimagine Books |
What if you could own a stake in Harry Potter? What if the book series functioned like a publicly traded company where individuals could "buy stock" in it, and as the franchise grows, those "stocks" become more valuable? If this were the case, someone who purchased just three percent of Harry Potter back when there was only one book would be a billionaire now. This is the future an emerging number of publishing startups are after—aiming to change the value of a book from a $10 Amazon purchase to a $100 investment opportunity, while creating a market of readers excited to see the books they love succeed. |
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A Conversation with the Guy Who Created The Bear |
Yes. Your friends are right. If you haven't done so yet, you need to watch The Bear. That should be perfectly clear by now. The Bear qualifies as the truest fire-and-blood depiction of restaurant life in the history of television, but it's more than that, too: The hurtling chaos of Christopher Storer's Chicago-based FX series feels like a metaphor for the collective stress of being alive in 2022. But for Storer himself, The Bear clearly embodies something else, too: a method of processing stories of loss, estrangement, trauma, addiction, and food from his own life. Esquire spoke with Storer to get the backstory on the TV show of the summer. |
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The 40 Best HBO Series of All Time, Ranked |
It's time for us to reevaluate the offerings from HBO, a network that has given us too much good for our own good when it comes to entertainment. You can't help but recognize a drama that redefined television with a little story about a coveted Iron Throne. How can you not tip your hat to the great Larry Sanders Show? And then there are newbies, like Euphoria, that have turned the often-melodramatic teen drama category into a cutting edge storytelling device about drug use and social pressures. So here's the rundown, best as we can imagine it: the top 40 HBO shows, including our takes on characters like Tony Soprano and Carrie Bradshaw—two figures who introduced the now defunct anti-hero era. We know there are always some capital-O opinions when it comes to the output from this beloved premium network, so sound off in the comments. But don't come at us with any pro-Westworld takes—you know that show is off its rocker. |
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