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Our top institutions of higher learning run bloated endowment funds designed for higher earning—and avoiding scrutiny.
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Weekly Bafflements
November 10, 2017
Online is extremely fucked up.
Here’s a truly wild look at the world of Kid’s YouTube, where algorithmically-driven content production is creating some really weird shit.
“Tell me about a complicated man.”
The New York Times Magazine has a great profile of ...
Louie and Roy
November 10, 2017
Yesterday’s twin reports on Roy Moore and Louis CK remind us that sexual assault and women’s inequality are still everyone’s problem.
So Much Winning
November 09, 2017
There was no quibbling over what item on the menu might be more digestible---Virginia voters just carted off the whole buffet.
Regarding the Pain of Others
November 08, 2017
Gordon Hayward's leg injury forces us to admit that we might die any day now, for no good reason, at exactly the wrong time in our lives.
Signs and Blunders
November 08, 2017
Martin McDonagh's "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" finds moral complexity where it needed moral certitude.
The Usual Suspects
November 07, 2017
The Kevin Spacey scandal highlights the problem of “the open secret.”
Is Anyone Relating?
Lady Dynamite’s Maria Bamford confronts our financial anxieties, which are exacerbated by the famous and wealthy.
Joe Ricketts, Media Destroyer
November 06, 2017
As the old refrain goes, at Gothamist and DNAinfo the union made us strong---not Joe Ricketts, not his money, not his decisions and certainly not his “direction.”
Weekly Bafflements
November 03, 2017
Your boss doesn’t care about you.
In a move that’s brazenness is only rivaled by its dickishness, billionaire Joe Ricketts opted to shut down local news outlets Gothamist and DNAinfo rather than allow his employees to unionize.
Tumblr is truly wild.
There’s is no ...
Reverse Robin Hoods
November 03, 2017
Tax reform is but one gust in the current hurricane of news flashes, but it may prove to have very long-lasting effects.
Spielberg’s Children
In the HBO special "Spielberg," the subject is hard to know but it's not hard to know why: it all goes back to his childhood.