The Museum Shoots Twice
April 22, 2021
The museum is a failed technology.
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In Three Years We Can Quit Chicken Sexing
April 22, 2021
ANOTHER ROUND
If you can accept Mads Mikkelsen as a depressed high school history teacher in the suburbs, maybe you will also believe that his beautiful doctor wife (Maria Bonnevie) would take him back after he makes drinking on the job the guiding principle of his life. Thomas ...
The Fruit of Power
April 21, 2021
Raoul Peck unspools Western history in a new documentary on colonialism and genocide
Must Love Bogs
April 20, 2021
Conserving peatlands is a cheap climate change win. So why’s it such a hard sell?
Fresh Hell
April 16, 2021
In God We Trust, All Others Get Book Deals
Armed and Dangerous
An afternoon of terror when detained by a corrupt Indiana cop.
The Necromancer’s Driver
A new short story by Reuben Dendinger.
Who Owns Vaccines?
April 15, 2021
IP-hoarding will prolong the pandemic
The Social Beast
April 14, 2021
On the anti-totalitarianism of Simone Weil.
A Theory of Thorstein Veblen
April 12, 2021
A new biography challenges the Veblen’s image as an academic misfit.
Fresh Hell
April 10, 2021
And They Told You Diamonds Were Forever
Instead of exchanging wedding rings, one recently married San Fransisco couple sent non-fungible tokens to each other’s digital wallets mid-ceremony. The marriage was further sanctified by an Ethereum smart contract. Both man and wife ...
Awful but Lawful
In the Derek Chauvin trial, racist histories go unchallenged in the courtroom.