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Praying to Allah on Bastille Day

We are pleased to present the winner of our essay contest: Kate Korman of Santa Monica, California. “‘Praying to Allah on Bastille Day’ was a delight to read,” contest judge Glenn…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1700 words)

Lives of the Moral Saints (Larissa MacFarquhar)

As a former philosophy professor, I’ve especially admired Larissa MacFarquhar’s profiles in The New Yorker. She takes her subjects’ ideas seriously and has an enviable gift for…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3374 words)

Can I Get in the Van?

Illustration by Todd Ryan White In the summer of 1981, a young and unknown 20-year-old punk from Washington, DC, named Henry Garfield jumped up onstage to sing an encore with Black Flag at a show in…
AUTHOR:Erick Lyle
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4049 words)

A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse

What is a revolution? We used to think we knew. Revolutions were seizures of power by popular forces aiming to transform the very nature of the political, social, and economic system in the country…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3770 words)

What Are Foundations For?

This article leads off our debate on philanthropy, with responses from Stanley Katz, Diane Ravitch, Larry Kramer, and others. Judge Richard Posner, one of the foremost American jurists outside the…
AUTHOR:Rob Reich
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4087 words)

Who Shot Valerie Finley?

Rodney Stanberry with his son Trevon, shortly before Rodney was sent to prison. / Courtesy of Denise Stanberry The call came into the Prichard Police Department at 11:20 on Monday morning. It was…
LENGTH: 40 minutes (10092 words)

Kevin Driscoll on To Save Everything, Click Here

Triptych image: Megan Cotts, "ECU"EVGENY MOROZOV IS DONE WITH THE INTERNET. In his latest book, To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism, Morozov dismantles the myth…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3174 words)

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Mota studied the map as the viceroy’s plump, pink finger traced the line of peaks into the far reaches of the northwestern frontier. “Here,” the viceroy said, stopping his finger…
LENGTH: 35 minutes (8799 words)

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 38 minutes (9606 words)
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