The Superhero Surge
April 03, 2017
The Iron Fist is not fighting some fictional ancient order, but hammering through the contradictions of capitalism.
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The Capsizing of Damien Hirst
April 03, 2017
Once reportedly the richest artist in the world, Hirst’s market value and reputation have sunk.
Meet the New Drone, Same as the Old Drone
March 31, 2017
The horror of Trump’s foreign policy won’t be as immediately obvious to Americans as his domestic failures. And yet any successful resistance to his administration will necessarily have to address it alongside all the other more proximate grievances. The only viable defense ...
Spring Cleaning with Hemingway
March 30, 2017
More and more I’ve become fascinated with collectors and collections . . . and the shadowy, idiosyncratic zones between collecting and clutter, even hoarding, where the fondness for objects becomes (so often) unruly.
Donald Trump Is Trying to Destroy the Planet
The way to the push the administration is from the bottom up. In other words, to build a bulwark of political will in cities and states, a bulwark of resistance so that regardless of what the federal government does, states are invested in building a clean energy future. That is ...
Salt Lake Snake Oil
Bloomberg View columnist Megan McArdle, though, is certain that she’s stalked the true home of American ingenuity, perseverance, and upward mobility in the present-day Mormon frontier. In a stem-winding, deeply impressionable survey of Salt Lake City’s church-administered ...
The Great Data Sale
March 30, 2017
You can tell Representative Mike Capuano represents Boston, my hometown, because he talks like someone who carries around with him a deep and abiding hatred of Comcast. “I have a simple question,” my congressman began, in Wednesday’s floor debate in the House over digital ...
The Security State Wags Its Tongue
March 29, 2017
You would think we would have learned by now, after the invasion of Iraq and the election of Donald Trump . . .
Take the Knife out of Your Back
It goes against the Hallmark/Riot Grrrl/Twitter sisterhood utopian vision, but the truth is most friendships don’t last. And that’s fine. Never make room for people who treat you poorly; everyone has weak moments, but if someone truly hurts you and doesn’t actually give a ...
Brexit, Pursued by Despair
The referendum was the flame; Article 50 is the fuse. Today, after months of recrimination and fear, the deed was finally done. Britain’s unelected Prime Minister triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, setting the legal machine of international relations on an unstoppable ...
From a Darling of White Supremacists, a Shrug and a “Who, Me?”
When Charles Murray took the podium at Columbia University last week, one thing became clear: here was a man used to denying his bedfellows.
You would think that the author responsible for The Bell Curve—the shoddiest piece of pseudoscience to appear in the ...
Sorry Liberals, Jared Kushner Is Right
Simply put, if President Trump wants the government to achieve general excellence, he should run the government like a general-excellence factory. A general-excellence factory manufactures general excellence. If the government follows this model, it must guarantee every ...