Desperately Seeking Relevance
Why has relevance become so prominent as a goal and a de facto accomplishment?
The Murderer’s Reckoning
Posted on August 3, 2016
Image: Lennon family photo; THR photo illustration.
My last day of freedom was January 24, 2002.
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.
Outlaw or Criminal?
We Americans have a soft spot for the outlaw. But what distinguishes an outlaw from a criminal?
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.
Introducing the Summer Issue: Meritocracy and Its Discontents
Posted on July 1, 2016
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Time to meet the summer issue.