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A Faster Horse?

Liza Featherstone

February 20, 2018

No one has been more lionized for his contempt for focus groups than Steve Jobs.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

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, ...

The Mountain of Everything Keeps on Giving

Matt Hern

February 15, 2018

The Yukon—like the rest of Canada—is saturated with colonialist contradictions.

Temporary Autonomous Taco Zones

Luke Cragg

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.

The Right to Radiance

Jessa Crispin

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

Liza Featherstone

February 13, 2018

How the powerful learned to launder their reputations using focus groups.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 09, 2018

We love picking, make no mistake about it. For the “oddly satisfying” video enthusiast in your life, Billy and Summer Pierce present the Next Big Thing: Pop it Pal™, “the novelty pimple popping toy you just can’t get enough of.” For $19.99, you’ll get a slab ...

The Budget and the Political Imagination Deficit

Max B. Sawicky

February 09, 2018

Today's budget deal sucks for many of our fellow citizens, but it’s still Trump’s world, and we have to live in it.

Russia’s Zombie Election

Natalia Antonova

February 08, 2018

We shouldn’t even be framing this as an election; it’s more like a protracted episode of Tales from the Crypt.

A Serious Man

John Ganz,  Steven Klein

February 07, 2018

If Jordan Peterson really is the “most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now,” as David Brooks writes, we have reason to worry.

Surveillance Valley

Yasha Levine

February 06, 2018

If the Internet is truly such a revolutionary break from the past, why are companies like Google in bed with cops and spies?

Faster, Higher, Stronger, More Harmonious

Martin Fritz Huber

February 05, 2018

If sports are capable of “building a peaceful and better world,” they are just as likely to make people act like idiots.