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Why You Truly Never Leave High School

Sarah and Jim, 1988 & 2011.For the past three years, Argentine photographer Irina Werning has been staging reenactments of old snapshots. The project, “Back to the Future,” includes…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (903 words)

The 10 Best Oral Histories from 2012 That You Haven't Had Time to Read Yet

Oral histories are a straight-from-the-horses mouth kind of reading we've come to love. They can offer insight into worlds we already know and love, or take us into communities we never knew existed.…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1223 words)

The Longform Guide to Startup Eulogies

Kevin Rose of DiggPhoto by Brian Solis via Wikimedia Commons. Every weekend, Longform shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate. For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction,…
AUTHOR:Max Linsky
PUBLISHED: July 14, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1433 words)

Is the Web Driving Us Mad?

Before he launched the most viral video in Internet history, Jason Russell was a half-hearted Web presence. His YouTube account was dead, and his Facebook and Twitter pages were a trickle of kid…
PUBLISHED: July 8, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4059 words)

American Mozart

So here is the president of the United States, enjoying canapés and small talk at Daniel, chef Daniel Boulud’s gourmet restaurant just off Park Avenue, with the right touch of…
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7791 words)

You Say You Want a Devolution?

The past is a foreign country. Only 20 years ago the World Wide Web was an obscure academic thingamajig. All personal computers were fancy stand-alone typewriters and calculators that showed only…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (440 words)

Hacked!

On April 13 of this year, a Wednesday, my wife got up later than usual and didnt check her email until around 8:30 a.m. The previous night, she had put her computer to sleep, rather than…
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7601 words)

The 14 Biggest Ideas of the Year

A guide to the intellectual trends that, for better or worse, are shaping America right now. (Plus a bunch of other ideas, insights, hypotheses, and provocations.)
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6160 words)
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