Esquire’s Stephen Marche, with “Can We Stop Acting So Childish?,” has one of the more entertaining and dead-on critiques of modern culture I’ve ever read. Wanna know why Paris and Lindsay remain popular despite their apparent lack of redeemable qualities? Marche’s got it all figured out.

Alas, the 1000-word essay is not online (yet). Check it out in the September 2008 issue.