Sphere Eats the Soul
November 29, 2023
The Sphere in Las Vegas is the canonical venue for the online era.
Aaron Timms
Aaron Timms is a writer living in New York. His writing has appeared in publications including The New Republic, n+1, and Foreign Policy. He is working on a book about food culture, to be published by Astra House in 2024.
Everywhere in Salad Chains
America is one nation under the green goddess.
Constantine Cavafy, Influencer
October 6, 2022
A poet for the Very Online.
How to Become an Intellectual in Silicon Valley
“Competition,” wrote Peter Thiel in his 2014 manual Zero to One: Notes on Startups, Or How to Build the Future, “is an ideology—the ideology—that pervades our society and distorts our thinking. We preach competition, internalize its necessity, and enact its ...
Jet Age Capitalism Redux
December 19, 2019
Imbibing the misinformed nostalgia at the new TWA Hotel
Under the Australian Sun
February 14, 2019
Australia is heating up in ways that are no longer part of the normal pattern.
The Banality of Good
October 15, 2018
Michael Lewis's The Fifth Risk is a political book with nothing interesting to say about politics.
This Is Not A Blip
October 2, 2018
In March, the Colorado River Research Group published a report urging water watchers to stop using the word “drought” to describe environmental changes in the southwestern United States. “Drought,” the group wrote, implies that “the condition is temporary—a deviation ...