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October 21, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
What’s Wrong with French Secularists’ Pro-Pork Agenda
October 21, 2015
George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller
The Free Market Preys on Your Every Weakness
The economics of manipulation; or, why there's so much candy at the checkout counter.
October 21, 2015
Donovan Hohn
Everybody Hates Henry
Literary saint or arrogant fraud—why do we need Thoreau to be one or the other?
October 21, 2015
Malcolm Harris
How to Make a Virtuoso Violinist
One mother’s devastating study of 100 musical prodigies
October 21, 2015
Johannah King-Slutzky
Tyler Oakley’s Radical YouTube Memoir
The social media star, beloved of One Direction fans, guides us through gay millennial culture
October 20, 2015
Bijan Stephen
Drake's “Hotline Bling” Is a Farewell Booty Call
October 20, 2015
Dustin Kurtz
Why Is Amazon Still Fighting a Critical New York Times Piece?
On Monday, Jay Carney sent a message to shareholders and employees
October 20, 2015
Kevin Nguyen
Hideo Kojima Is the Jonathan Franzen of Video Games
'The Phantom Pain’ is a big, riveting video game of sophomoric ideas
October 20, 2015
Jamil Smith
This Is What a Rapist Can Look Like, Actually
A British student's rant over a sexual consent workshop is rape culture personified
October 20, 2015
Jason Pinter
Why Did Ted Cruz Spend $122,000 on His Own Books?
Campaigns and publishers both profit when candidates buy their own books
October 20, 2015
PodcastIntersection
Intersection Episode 7: Janet Mock Contains Multitudes
October 19, 2015
Jonathan Malesic
Henry David Thoreau’s Radical Optimism
The political vision of 'Walden' is still essential reading
October 19, 2015
Calum Marsh
Is Michel Houellebecq's 'Submission' Really So Controversial?
His novel—published the day of the Charlie Hebdo attack—is finally available in English.
October 19, 2015
Alex Shephard
How Amazon Quietly Became America's Biggest Publisher of Translated Literature
October 19, 2015
Spencer Woodman
Chris Hansen Is Back to Catching Predators
Only this time there's no NBC, just a star and his crowd-funded crew of online vigilantes
October 16, 2015
Elizabeth Winkler
Malcolm Gladwell Is Wrong About School Shooters
Shootings are nothing like a riot.
October 15, 2015
Kirstin Butler
The Author Is Livestreaming
Josh Cohen's "PCKWCK" project shows him typing every word in real time
October 15, 2015
The New Republic
"Think Out Loud," Hosted by the New Republic
A discussion about the "black digital intelligentsia" that is changing American thought
October 15, 2015
Malcolm Thorndike Nicholson
The Dakota: New York’s First Mega-Luxury Apartment
October 15, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
Steven Spielberg Makes the Cold War Cool Again with "Bridge of Spies"

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