- Explaining hypergreed; Titanic lifeboats as a positional good; Compulsion Furniture.
- Lobbying brings 100-fold returnfor private prison barons; financial gusher.
- In casino banks, the house always wins.
- Wealth worship encourages credulity.
- Welcome to the virtual workplace matrix; 85 cents for 16 tasks.
- Food pushers.
- OIRA as the "sphincter" of the administrative state.
- Versailles as tragedy, then farce: “maids and nannies and an indeterminate number of fluffy white dogs.”
- New Yorker fallen wunderkinder edition:
- Lehrer’s weighty confusions; rejiggering reality.
- Three takes on Gladwell: satirical, snarky, and devastating.
- Hitchcock’s girl *
- How Cosmo Conquered the World *
- Olympics sentiments as "collective joy" *
- Postcards from France: Paul Fussell and the Field Service “Form-letter” *
- Why We Hate-Search *
- Don’t Feed the Psychotic Narcissists *
- DeAndre McCullough (1977-2012) *
- The Mystery of Charles Dickens *
- Gore Vidal's Detective Novels *
- Justin Bieber initials on all my winter clothes *
- Becoming Stephen King *
- The Andy Warhol New York City Diet *
- How to Ditch Happily-Ever-After and Build Your Own Romantic Narrative *
- Depression can be the result of a lot of suppressed anger *
- The tricky business of writing casting notices *
- The Paranoid-Critical Method *
- On the rise—and the space—of the art-world press release. *
- Exterminate all the brutes
- US Drone Strikes Undermining Pakistan Democracy
- First Friday, FTP
- Get A Job: The Craigslist Experiment
- Doing Africa Journalism Differently
- The Wall Street book everyone should read
- Who’s the Greater Threat to Freedom? Chicago or Chick-fil-A?
- Somalia’s New Constitution
- The watercolor paintings of Paul Bremer
- Obama is a Descendant of Nefertiti & Confucius too
- Olympics or Gay Porn? (Yes.)
- Alex Doonesbury Succeeds Her Father as ‘Doonesbury’s Main Character
- Africa Utopia and London’s “Festival of the World with Mastercard”
What Stewart and Colbert do most nights is convert civic villainy into disposable laughs. They prefer Horatian satire to Juvenalian, and thus treat the ills of modern media and politics as matters of folly, not concerted evil. Rather than targeting the obscene cruelties borne of greed and fostered by apathy, they harp on a rogues’ gallery of hypocrites familiar to anyone with a TiVo or a functioning memory. Wit, exaggeration, and gentle mockery trump ridicule and invective. The goal is to mollify people, not incite them.
- Jonah Lehrer, Bob Dylan, and journalistic unquotations
- The Joke's on You
- What if every Olympic sport was photographed like beach volleyball?
- The Obama administration said Friday it will begin charging $465 this month for temporary work permits for many young illegal immigrants, as it laid out details of one its signature new policies on immigration.
- Depressingly, Detroit is now stealing plotlines from The Wire.
- Climate Change Is Here — And Worse Than We Thought.
- And the New Republic proves once again it is the absolute worst magazine in the world. When you are tired of Springsteen, you are tired of life…