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Watch the Professor! 25 Jul 2013 | 01:33 am
Is America anti-intellectual? The jury is still out. One could make equally plausible cases for our country as a hotbed of hostility to organized intelligence and as a sort of paradise for the clevere...
After Gezi Park 19 Jun 2013 | 12:26 am
I was in Istanbul during Occupy Wall Street, as the protests spread across America. By winter, of course, the protestors had been evicted from Zuccotti Park and the movement vanished from the headline...
Margaret Thatcher: Fashion Rebel? 2 Jun 2013 | 09:58 pm
It is a cringeworthy moment: high-priced frocks, dashed by graffiti and chains, parading as punk at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, of all places. But let’s set that aside. Walking through the museum’...
Small Talk 19 May 2013 | 04:53 am
I recently found myself sitting across a table from a stranger, chewing awkwardly in silence. It was a familiar scenario: a hole-in-the-wall sandwich shop with not enough tables and me sitting alone, ...
Terror and Twitter 26 Apr 2013 | 09:50 pm
To say that I’ve been following the Boston bombings case throughout the past week would be a considerable understatement. I’ve read every major and tangential article about it, often multiple times. I...
The Bachelor, Season 17 21 Apr 2013 | 08:13 pm
I am a person with a brain and I watch The Bachelor. And not just as a joke. Sure, a part of me will always be that pajama pants-ed person snacking away on olives and soft cheeses while snarkily jeer...
Beacons 11 Apr 2013 | 09:14 pm
“It is inevitable,” Stephanie Bernhard wrote in The New Inquiry in January, “that our fictional landscapes will evolve in tandem with our physical landscapes.” A changing climate, she argued, will cha...
Further Evidence 11 Mar 2013 | 08:24 am
1. There is something uncannily familiar about this view. It’s as if you’ve been here before. 2. But probably the familiarity is generic. You’ve experienced a scene resembling this one. In photograph...
Questions about Lydia Millet 28 Feb 2013 | 05:50 am
You’re about to tell us all about Lydia Millet. Why should we want to know about her? What you’re asking for here is what’s known as “the hook.” The hook is the part of the essay where I try to spray...
1994 30 Jan 2013 | 10:53 pm
People think about 1994 now because Kurt Cobain died then, which causes one to squint through the year, misremembering the end of that era as encompassing all of it. It has always struck me that 1994 ...
