God save us from Gawker’s world. The New York-based media gossip Web site, which launched in 2002 and has distinguished itself by, among other things, attacking writer Neal Pollack’s young son, Elijah ...

You have to give David Denby credit for bravery: Writing a book titled Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation is like writing a book titled Keying My Car: It’s the Wrong ...

The snark versus smarm debate has flooded our news feeds, after Tom Scocca’s December 5 Gawker article “On Smarm” took off. The piece asked critics and social media users whether their desire for a ...

Oh great: Yet another dumbed-down MSM rumination on snark, that mix of sarcasm and reductive wit that’s come to dominate modern online discourse. Like all snark attacks, this one quickly traces its ...

It's easy to lament that snark is taking over the world when someone is mean to you on the Internet, but is that really true, and what are we supposed to do about it anyway? In 2013, some public ...

Chrystia Freeland is the federal member of parliament for Toronto Centre and the author of Plutocrats: the Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else. Every age has its fight ...

Things are pretty quiet over at Snarkwatch (http://www.believermag.com/snarkwatch/), the Web page set up by the editors of the literary journal The Believer as a ...