The Triumph of the Farmers’ Market
The "sidewalk ballet" of the farmers' market
Up in Smoke—Plain Packaging and Brand Identity
Posted on April 20, 2015
Image: Vintage Camel cigarettes ad featuring prominent athletes such as Mickey Mantle.
Is plain packaging for cigarettes a barrier to trade?
The Hedgehog’s Array: April 3, 2015
Posted on April 3, 2015
Noteworthy reads from the last week.
The Politics of Spectacle in Putin's Russia: An Interview with Peter Pomerantsev
The first thing Putin did when he took control, when he became president, was to seize control of TV—even before he took control of oil, energy, or anything else. So this is very much a system of political authoritarian control that is exercised through TV.
The Troubled Stranger
Posted on April 7, 2015
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In a 2011 Pew Research Center survey of the general public, more than 90 percent of the respondents expressed pride in the post-9/11 troops, and some three-quarters said they had thanked a service member. At the same time, most have no link to recent or active-duty service members, have never heard their stories, and report little understanding of their challenges.
An Interview With Alan Jacobs
Humility, laziness, true confessions, and The Karate Kid—an interview with Alan Jacobs on his 79 Theses for Disputation.
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