Introducing the Summer Issue: Meritocracy and Its Discontents
Time to meet the summer issue.
Black Oxygen
Cormac McCarthy gives us 500 pages of idiosyncratic wordplay without even cheap narrative excitement. Who does he think he is? Joyce? Faulkner? Melville? Well, yes.
Outlaw or Criminal?
We Americans have a soft spot for the outlaw. But what distinguishes an outlaw from a criminal?
Hacking Moneyball
Numbers and big data may be able to show us how to do things better, but they cannot show us how to do things.