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Joyce Carol Oates “ How do you turn catastrophe into art?” This bold question, posed by Julian Barnes in a fabulist exegesis of Géricault’s great painting “The Raft…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2589 words)

The Meme Hustler

While the brightest minds of Silicon Valley are “disrupting” whatever industry is too crippled to fend off their advances, something odd is happening to our language. Old, trusted words…
LENGTH: 62 minutes (15686 words)

The Smartest Girls In The Room

How an obscure Australian judge and hard-charging lawyer exposed the world’s best known ratings agency for misleading and deceiving investors.Amanda Banton might have stepped off the set of…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5086 words)

The Long Con: Mail-order conservatism

To read more great writing from our past issues, click here. Mitt Romney is a liar. Of course, in some sense, all politicians, even all human beings, are liars. Romney’s lying went so…
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6230 words)

The Engagement Economy | How gamification is reshaping businesses

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LENGTH: 20 minutes (5063 words)

The Philanthropic Complex

n the fall of 2009 I was approached by Hal Clifford, editor of Orion Magazine, and asked to write an essay about American philanthropy, especially in relation to environmentalism. From the first I…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3322 words)

Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss? -Full Post

What follows is based on my notes and slides from my talk at SF Music Tech Summit.  I realize that I’m about to alienate some of my friends that work on the tech side of the music…
PUBLISHED: April 15, 2012
LENGTH: 44 minutes (11010 words)

read his legacy of award-winning work

Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning foreign correspondent, died at the age of 43 in Syria, while reporting for the New York Times. A beloved and brilliant writer, Shadid spent his two-decade career…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (340 words)

The Art Pop Primer

Nic Rad Art Pop is here and it’s as cool as the patches on your professor’s elbows. There are many tenets and variations but one unifying rule: Art Pop is a style more intent on bursting…
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LENGTH: 3 minutes (851 words)
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