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May 8, 2019
Jo Livingstone
Going Under at the Playboy Club
It's been a half-century since Gloria Steinem exposed the outrageous working conditions at Hugh Hefner's club. Playboy has changed—but have we?
June 22, 2018
Jeet Heer
Evangelicals boldly back ex-pimp for state senator in Nevada.
April 12, 2018
Jeet Heer
Another Trump hush-money scandal raises questions about his hidden debts.
September 29, 2017
Jeet Heer
Hugh Hefner’s Incomplete Sexual Revolution
Anti-puritan but blind to his male privilege, the Playboy mogul liberated men by demeaning women.
September 29, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Hugh Hefner Was Never The Star of
Playboy
His greatest achievement was the brilliant criticism he provoked from women.
February 10, 2016
Laura Marsh
With no mansion and no nudes, Hugh Hefner’s son thinks “what’s happening at
Playboy
is sad.”
November 17, 2015
Alex Shephard
2015 has been a bad year for lad magazines.
October 14, 2015
Jeet Heer
All Work and No Playboy
Today's upwardly mobile men don't have time to dream about bunnies
June 26, 2013
Jason Farago
Playboy in Marfa
The bunny invades the minimalist mecca
December 26, 2005
David Hajdu
McCartney III
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