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The Failed Political Promise of Silicon Valley

Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on September 27, 2019

Photos of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller

The Conflicted Love Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller

How an intense unclassifiable relationship shaped the history of modern thought.

by Maria Popova via The Marginalian on June 5, 2019

Jeff Bezos Dreams of a 1970s Future

If the sci-fi space cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin look familiar, it’s because they’re derived from the work of his college professor.

by Fred Scharmen via CityLab on May 13, 2019

Donald Trump, holding microphones, surrounded by shock jocks

The Trigger Presidency

How shock jock comedy gave way to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

by Ben Schwartz via The New Republic on April 24, 2019

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

“Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”

by David Treuer via Longreads on January 22, 2019

Frank Rizzo and the Making of Modern American Politics

An excerpt from Timothy Lombardo's "Blue Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics."

by Timothy Lombardo via Tropics of Meta on October 16, 2018

Rainbow Farm: The Domestic Siege That Time Forgot

In 2001, two men were killed by the FBI at a farm in Michigan. Then, 9/11 happened.

by Jeff Winkler via The Outline on October 2, 2018

New York City skyscrapers

Capital of the World

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on August 2, 2018

Why Did American Music Festivals Almost Disappear in the 1970s and ’80s?

In a few short years, American festivals went from cultural phenomena to endangered species.

by Tyler Clark via Consequence of Sound on July 18, 2018

Coming to Terms With Nature

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s.

by Bill McKibben via The Nation on May 9, 2018

The Tools of Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley’s sixty-year love affair with the word “tool.”

by Moira Weigel via The New Yorker on April 11, 2018

Rat Race

Why are young professionals crazy for marathons?

by Dylan Gottlieb via Public Seminar on February 15, 2018

How Country Music Went Conservative

Country music is assumed to be the soundtrack of the Republican Party. But it wasn't always that way.

by On The Media via WNYC on October 6, 2017

Playing Indian

How a fight over Native American symbolism in Oregon brought to light the conflict at America's core.

by Alex Ronan via The Outline on September 26, 2017

Two Papasan chairs

Tracing the Elusive History of Pier 1's Ubiquitous 'Papasan' Chair

The bowl-shaped seat's conflicted heritage incorporates the Vietnam War.

by John Kelly via Atlas Obscura on July 17, 2017

Jimi Hendrix performing at Woodstock.

The Beautiful Sounds of Jimi Hendrix

“Hendrix used a range of technological innovations...to expand the sound of the guitar, to make it ‘talk’ in ways that it never had.”

by Adam Shatz via New York Review of Books on January 9, 2014

Old abandoned cabin in field.

Creaky Boards and Cobwebs

The history of haunted houses in the movies.

via BackStory on June 7, 2013

Photo of a newspaper referring to Jewish riots in the New York Times

The Festive Meal

There once was a time when Yom Kippur was a time to eat, drink, and be merry.

by Eddy Portnoy via Tablet on September 24, 2009

"Sunrise at Northport Harbor" painting by Arthur Dove.

Unpopular Front

American art and the Cold War.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on October 9, 2005

Inez Milholland with her dog.

Let Us Mate

Proposal advice from Inez Milholland, originally published in the Chicago Day Book, 1916.

via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 3, 1916

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