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The Legend of Chris Kyle

There’s a story about Chris Kyle: on a cold January morning in 2010, he pulled into a gas station somewhere along Highway 67, south of Dallas. He was driving his supercharged black Ford F350…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3525 words)

A Brief History of Applause, the 'Big Data' of the Ancient World

Once, people measured their leaders -- and themselves -- one clap at a time. The Dionysus Theater in Greece, from a German encyclopedia, 1891 (Wikimedia Commons) And then, suddenly, just when the…
PUBLISHED: March 15, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3149 words)

Requiem for a Dream

“This, I suppose, is the actual problem,” Swartz wrote, long before his suicide. “I feel my existence is an imposition on the planet.” Illustration by Michael Gillette.
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1019 words)

My Life as a Replacement Ref: Three Unlikely Months Inside the NFL

TIME’s Sean Gregory spoke Friday with Jerry Frump, a long-time college football referee who served as a “replacement ref” during the recent NFL labor dispute. Highlights from the…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1235 words)

They Taught America to Watch Football

In the summer of 1968, Steve Sabol went on the road. He was driving a beat-up old car with the windows open. From Pennsylvania to Ohio to Indiana, the towns drifted by, the neon vacancy signs outside…
AUTHOR:Rich Cohen
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2296 words)

Destroy All Monsters

DISCUSSED: Basements as Dungeons, Middle-earth, War Games, Moral Clarity, Vin Diesel, Biological Determinism, Death by Misadventure, Freaks Geeks, Tom Hanks, Castration Anxiety, Satanism,…
LENGTH: 41 minutes (10471 words)

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?

An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign
PUBLISHED: Feb. 1, 1982
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2116 words)
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