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The Strangely Troubled Life of Digby Mackworth Dolben

In 1911 the soon-to-be poet laureate Robert Bridges published the poems of Digby Mackworth Dolben, a school friend who had drowned to death at the age of 19 almost half a century earlier. Carl Miller…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 14, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2408 words)

Which Long Magazine Profile of the Aaron Swartz Case Should You Read? Orin Kerr • March 5, 2013 2:08 am

Adrian Chen of Gawker has a helpful post ranking the major Aaron Swartz stories that have appeared in magazines. For those following the Swartz case, it’s worth checking out. Like Chen, I was…
AUTHOR:Orin Kerr
PUBLISHED: March 5, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (515 words)

When A 10-Year-Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame?

Image by Johan Persson/Kontinent/Redux Two flags dangle from a banister into the middle of a living room in a modest two-story suburban home in Riverside — one of the far-flung exurbs of Southern…
AUTHOR:NatashaVC
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6352 words)

The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent

A painting of 17th-century Venice, with a view of the banks of the Grand Canal and the Doge’s Palace, by Leandro Bassano. IN the early 14th century, Venice was one of the
PUBLISHED: Oct. 13, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1798 words)

Decision-Making In Gordon Moore’s Land

Moore’s Law (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Three Months Circling the Future Nigel Cameron is President of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET), a Washington, DC think tank on…
PUBLISHED: July 20, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2078 words)

Prep-School Predators

From the elevated platform of the No. 1 train’s last stop at 242nd Street, you can just about see the lush 18-acre campus of the Horace Mann School. The walk from the station is short, but it…
AUTHOR:Amos Kamil
PUBLISHED: June 6, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (704 words)
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The 1 Percent’s Problem

Adapted from The Price of Inequality, by Joseph Stiglitz, to be published in June by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. (U.S.), and in July by Allen Lane (U.K.); © 2012 by the author. Let’s start by…
PUBLISHED: May 31, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3155 words)

Your Veil Is a Battleground

Kiana Hayeri grew up in Tehran, where the country’s morality police restricted her public behavior. She left in 2005 when she was 17 and moved to Toronto, where she studied photography at Ryerson…
PUBLISHED: May 29, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (632 words)

A New York Times Whodunit

(Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty (Sulzberger, Robinson); Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine (all backgrounds). Illustration by John Ritter.) When Arthur ­Sulzberger Jr.…
AUTHOR:Joe Hagan
PUBLISHED: May 26, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (850 words)
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