It’s All Bullshit | JS Tan
The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.
Amazon’s Quest to Bleed Music Dry
Amazon has pillaged the planet in its quest for world domination. Music has not been spared.
pointillist shapes—a medallion, a rocket ship—they concluded, prophetically, with the
PlatinumMany Revolutions | Jamie Lauren Keiles
Brains on Drugs | John Semley
Between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, consuming drugs to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.
Big Play | John Semley
Fantasy football conjures not the sporting life of the jock, but the mental life of his boss.
Trumpania, U.S.A. | Ed Simon
“Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again” has little to actually do with beauty, or culture, or even buildings, and everything to do with power.
No Man Is an Island | John Semley
In a film culture stuffed with comic book heroes, a new Jack London adaptation serves as a riposte to the cult of individualism.