Lauren Kirchner

As Germany continues to grapple with Google over privacy and profit, Google is deploying its strategic pundit reserve. Jeff Jarvis (journalist, author, #innovator, tech-enthusiast and news-guru) was recently brought over to Google’s Big Tent event in Berlin, where he defended ...

This Saturday marks the 109th anniversary of the birth of Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist, playwright, and agitator extraordinaire. Sartre is well known today for many things—though fame was never what he was after. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ...

Have you heard all of the latest #news about #yoga? LeBron James recently crashed a yoga class, and credited it with improving his flexibility and stamina in the NBA finals. Men’s Journal reports that the yoga craze is finally crossing over to the “dudes,” a ...

Move over, FoxNews.com, the Daily Caller, The Blaze, the Washington Times, Breitbart, and Drudge; move over, everybody. Make some room, because the Heritage Foundation launched its very own news site on Tuesday, which the Washington Post reports will keep twelve journalists on ...

Today marks the 274th birthday of French revolutionary and libertine extraordinaire Marquis de Sade, and The Baffler is celebrating by re-reading Hussein Ibish’s reflections from Issue 22, “The United Sades of America.” In the popular imagination, Marquis de ...

Following a Newsweek cover story about the various exaggerations and fabrications of Cambodian anti-sex trafficking activist Somaly Mam and her colleagues last week, Mam announced on Wednesday that she would resign. In his Newsweek story, Simon Marks asked, “She has done ...

Christopher Lasch, one of the leading American social critics of the last half-century, would have celebrated his eighty-second birthday this weekend, were he still alive. Lasch succumbed to cancer in 1994, at the heartbreaking age of sixty-one, but his intellectual legacy lives ...

Friday, May 23rd marks the 204th anniversary of the birth of Margaret Fuller, literary icon and “America’s first true feminist.” Fuller, born in Cambridge in 1810, is lately enjoying a bit of a renaissance. She was a female editor in a man’s world of ...