Little Boxes on a Hillside
...they’ve enabled. Suburbs disenfranchise people who can’t drive, like children, the elderly, and those who can’t afford a car. People who can drive often face long commutes to work, and...
Plantation Neoliberalism
...the Brazilian “gradually disappeared from my visual field” is just a bit rich. Writing in the clear light of an early morning, one in which subjects and objects have re-achieved...
Sunday Reading
...been closed." "The next morning my aunt called a doctor. A bit pointless, I thought, I will kill myself soon." "Putting on an awkward rhinoceros horn is more comfortable than...
The Slopes of Davos
...against the planet’s true masters of improvisation. But the assignment of blame gets a bit confusing. “Interestingly, respondents to the Global Risks Perception Survey connected antibiotic-resistant bacteria to failure of...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 16
...asking Mr. Gorbachev to put back that wall. They could at least have taken it down slower or even tried dressing it up a bit: Hang some art, give it...
What Does a Woman Know?
...turned out to be a Nazi and died a horrible death. The Mummy presents women a little bit differently. The one main female character, Evelyn Carnahan, is a scholar herself,...
A Sentimental Education
...Poet, essayist, translator, activist — Russian writer Kirill Medvedev has worn and taken off many hats While many things about present day Russia might seem still a bit Soviet,...
The Risks of Overreporting
...the real thing, and those gel trays are repulsive.) When we overreport—or overread reports—of beauty work that crosses the line, we nudge ourselves just a little bit closer to that...
Managing Hearts with Kim and Flo
...periods of waiting. They emphasize action, reflexes, decision-making, and efficiency. Diner Dash and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood games fill their screens completely, demanding their players’ full attention. Time management games require...
Paranoia lost
...(sometimes laundered as "sharing" and "tolerance"), more subsumption of everyday life by social media. It's a bit like how the internalization of cool into the fashion business means that nothing...
Anger Management
...value beyond this doesn’t exist, clear and simple, it’s the only value that exists. Which is why…I don’t understand how it could have occurred to you to come to this...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...Our advice columnist Zahira Kelly specializes in the jolt of recognition that comes from rearranging or inverting mainstream hierarchies. In this month’s column, she dissects the costs of online...
Judging Books by Their Covers
...a bit exaggerated, though coming in so many octave ranges they are hard to ignore. It might be more useful to say print is changing and in our attention economy,...
Beauty Blogosphere Summer Solstice
...my entire world of "sellouts" vs. "non-sellouts" upside-down and I began to realize that the whole thing was a bit more complicated and that maybe I shouldn't be all Judge...
We Can Do It!: Rosie the Swiffer
...With No Name you're carrying? In other words: Rosie the Riveter was a bit of propaganda created to refashion the idea of conventional femininity. Which is exactly how Procter...
The Unfuckables
...before. —"Take a Girl Like You," Kingsley Amis I love to play strippers and to imitate them. I love using that idea for comedy, but the idea of actually going...