A Faster Horse?
February 20, 2018
No one has been more lionized for his contempt for focus groups than Steve Jobs.
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The Post-Text Hustle
Newspapers are more prayer than prophecy; perhaps the aim of “Welcome to the Post-Text Future” is to make an offering to the gods of digital advertising.
The Tyranny of the Takes
The real reason that Never Trumpers have the inside track to pundit posts in our papers of record is that a left-led Trump resistance is horrifying to them.
Fresh Hell
February 16, 2018
What If You Could Get Your Own Immigrant?
From the ivy-clad brain trust of our elite universities comes an innovative proposition: the Visas Between Individuals Program, in which Americans can sponsor an immigrant in order to extract their labor at below minimum wage rates, ...
In the House of a Thousand Likes
February 16, 2018
In the heart of the heart of the creative class sits Spring Street Social Society—a membership club for our times.
The Mountain of Everything Keeps on Giving
February 15, 2018
The Yukon—like the rest of Canada—is saturated with colonialist contradictions.
Temporary Autonomous Taco Zones
February 14, 2018
On mourning the loss of a fast food outpost with a candlelight vigil in an asphalt wasteland—and the rise of folk détournement.
Don’t Give Up on Universities
Antiracist and antifascist politics like #StopSpencer are providing a catalyst for many on campuses to confront anti-democratic power arrangements.
American Mirage
We’re happily living in Europe at the moment. She thinks we could live even more happily in America. Did I mention I hate America?
The Right to Radiance
February 13, 2018
A truly progressive man would be one who rejects the social and economic advantages that come from masculinity, with a “feminine flourish.”
The Listening Con
February 13, 2018
How the powerful learned to launder their reputations using focus groups.
Cut the Music
February 12, 2018
The NYPD’s secret M.A.R.C.H. operation has been closing the city’s venues for years—should it be abolished?