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NOT QUITE TWO weeks ago, the journalist-entrepreneur Ben Smith, in the butter-colored virtual pages of his newly launched publication Semafor, interviewed the former New York Times opinion editor James Bennet, in Bennet's "first on-the-record interview" about the events surroundi … | Continue reading
twenty years on, the author reflects on being trapped in a vortex of dark energy | Continue reading
Owning media is now an act of countercultural defiance | Continue reading
cryptic crosswords are infuriating; you should try them, you'll love them | Continue reading
Ten years after one of the deadliest tornadoes in history ripped through his town, an ex-newspaper reporter remembers all that was lost and all that was left. | Continue reading
But That's No Reason to Be a Worry Wort about It | Continue reading
A cultural history of Satyajit Ray’s height | Continue reading
Meet the Ńdébé Script | Continue reading
The absurdities of our global economic system had arrived, via mysteriously luxurious Trojan food cart, in my neighborhood. | Continue reading
The shitsystem concedes that the ruthless will thrive | Continue reading
Rosa Lyster has often replied “How much I hate nerds” in response to the question “What are you thinking about?” | Continue reading
Supercritical CO2 is heavy like a liquid but as penetrating as a gas, with surprisingly weird and useful properties. | Continue reading
"I barely know your kids and I feel like I would jump in front of a bus to stop this shit." | Continue reading
The rare, forgotten feeling of knowing that someone else, someone responsible, is taking care of life for you. | Continue reading
A society sometimes devours its young, that is, its brightest and most promising. | Continue reading
“The idea that the books I buy can be relegated to some kind of fucking software license is the most grotesque and awful thing I can imagine,” Doctorow said. | Continue reading
The thing that Bob G. cared about a lot, and would NOT RELAX ABOUT, was the temperature of beer. | Continue reading
Even a little power blurs your sight | Continue reading
I didn’t know the term then, but I had become a toiler on a content farm. | Continue reading
I live the only way my nature will allow. | Continue reading
Does the most famous New Yorker cover mean what you think it means? | Continue reading
An activist with an ulcer asks, “Why do nonprofits exist?” | Continue reading
Just blocks away from the press museum is a George W. Bush Street, and another named for the Russophobic late Polish President Lech Kaczynski. | Continue reading
It didn’t just happen overnight, the neat, sarcastic packaging of my childhood misfortunes. | Continue reading
How The English Patient almost ruined my life. | Continue reading
The Spotify and Ancestry partnership proposes to entertain users based on the narrowest possible conception of who they are. | Continue reading
My son is in competition for an increasingly paltry prize. For something that never was a prize. | Continue reading
Disinformation, once it’s done telling its lie, is finished with you. Dismediation is looking to make sure you never really trust or believe a news story, ever again | Continue reading
The reason why defensive soccer is better than the beautiful game. | Continue reading
There shouldn't be any lead in water, and yet water infrastructure has been made out of lead for centuries. | Continue reading
The first thing I always notice, after the mild cottonmouth that serves as the universal announcement of a chemical taking effect on the body, is that I’m not alone. | Continue reading
"I find, again and again, just by spending the time, by asking very simple questions, people have said the most astonishing things to me." | Continue reading