A Parlor Game for the Times: Whose Psyche Is Darker?
Would you rather be manipulated or punched in the gut?
Society & Culture
Professor Snyder is Not Fleeing the Country
The U.S. administration, destabilizing and unjustifiable in nearly all its actions, said Yale historian Timothy Snyder, “at its depth comes down to hero worship”—of Putin, Musk, Trump—but in the end we are sacrificing ourselves, “our children, our grandchildren, the possibility of life on earth….”
Searching for a Loose Confidence
I do not want to live like this anymore, scripted and tight and rigid.
Dead Malls and Dreams
Malls sold us canned fantasy. It could have been so different.
Anger Shows Us What We Protect
“What we usually call anger is only what is left of its essence when we are overwhelmed by its accompanying vulnerability."
What Elon Musk’s Baby Name Should Have Told Us
Names are significant for Elon Musk. And now, for all of us.
We Doth Protest—Not Enough
Hey, was that a police car honking in support? Mmm. Probably not.
Prejudice Is Natural
But why is race the dividing line?
Accelerationists? Goethe Warned Us
Past a certain speed, you only create chaos.
Frontenac and the French Revolution
Back then, luxury was there to be gawked at, fantasized about, tried on—and in time, marked way down, so that every once in a while, the goods were spread around.