Hipster Elegies

The death and life of the great American hipster offers an alternative history of culture over the last quarter century.

Who is secular man, and why is he so unhappy?

Desire has become longing’s counterfeit.

When it comes to doing nothing, style is everything

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Reality and Its Alternatives

What is this thing we’re trying to be?

This was the nightmare of scientific progress: The truths of today would become the falsehoods—or at least the errors—of tomorrow.

Housekeeping doesn’t just enable us to dwell; housekeeping is dwelling, and also it is thought.

We have become a nation and a people that simply cannot abide risks.