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The End of Violent, Simplistic, Macho Masculinity

How some men are trying to reform male culture: by emphasizing compassion over aggression Men Can Stop Rape Boys aren't supposed to do a lot of things: show fear or pain, compassion or tenderness;…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2048 words)

Jack White on Jack White: Rolling Stone's 2005 Cover Story

September 8, 2005 12:00 AM ET Photograph by Martin Schoeller for RollingStone.com Jack White pulls his black Ford pickup truck to the curb on a quiet, tree-lined street in his native Detroit and hits…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 8, 2005
LENGTH: 3 minutes (785 words)

Why Elites Fail

This article is adapted from Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, © 2012 by Christopher Hayes and published by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House Inc.  In 1990, at…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4580 words)

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5296 words)

The neuroscience of Bob Dylan's genius

Bob Dylan looks bored. It's May 1965 and he's slumped in an armchair at the Savoy hotel in London. The camera filming the documentary Don't Look Back, about Dylan's tour, turns away – Dylan's…
PUBLISHED: April 6, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3117 words)

Now I almost wish I hadn’t.

What can be gleaned from Spielberg's entire oeuvre, including the early classic E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial? Also click here to see Bill Wyman's complete ranking of Spielberg's films.Steven…
AUTHOR:Bill Wyman
PUBLISHED: Jan. 30, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3295 words)
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