What’s With You, Man?
HEY, JIMMIE JOHNSON You’re the best ever, Superman in a firesuit, a three-time NASCAR champion rolling toward your fourth straight Cup—fourth straight!—and yet you’re humble and quiet and polite and nice …
Flesh of Your Flesh
Should you eat meat?
Gutenberg and How Typography Is Like Music
Typography has a visceral and direct effect on everybody who reads. It can inhibit or enhance the feel of reading without being consciously noticeable. It does so by combining specific visuals that echo cultural memories, which are hopefully servile to the words they spell. Not unlike your favorite food tasting better on fine china then on paper plates, the choice of typeface can radically impact meaning while hopefully going consciously unnoticed. Try to exhort that indefinable magic in words, and you may as well be doing that over-quoted dance about architecture.
The undignified near-death of Miramax
Why Disney turned Harvey Weinstein’s legendary indie empire into a zombie slave — and why it doesn’t much matter
Big Bird, Meet Dick and Jane
A critique of Sesame Street
Dick Armey Is Back on the Attack
Since retiring from the House in 2003, Armey, like legions of other former elected officials, has burrowed into Washington’s establishment, never fully returning home to his 89 acres north of Dallas, his “ranchette,” as he calls it.
How to Make It As An Artist In New York 101
Marco Antonini stood in front of a tiny classroom at the Brooklyn art collective 3rd Ward on Monday night working a PowerPoint and explaining to a group of young artists how to make it in the New York art world.
Why Britain can’t do The Wire
The critically acclaimed US television drama could not be made here. We have writing talent in abundance, but its output is controlled by a stifling monopoly—the BBC. Plus, an interview with “The Wire”‘s creator David Simon
Rap Sheet
Why is American history so murderous?
The Disappearance of Ford Beckman
How A Celebrated American Artist Was Forced To Trade His Multimillion-Dollar Collection For A Job Selling Donuts
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