Data Center Overload
Much of the daily material of our lives is now dematerialized and outsourced to a far-flung, unseen network. The stack of letters becomes the e-mail database on the computer, which gives way to Hotmail or Gmail. The clipping sent to a friend becomes the attached PDF file, which becomes a set of shared bookmarks, hosted offsite.
The Top 10 Most Absurd Time Covers of The Past 40 Years
Mr. Luce’s mag does satanism, porn, crack, Pokemon, and more!
The Greatest Album Ever Made by Lester Bangs
The Code of Miss Porter’s
Last fall, at Miss Porter’s School, in Farmington, Connecticut—attended by generations of debutantes and heiresses, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Barbara Hutton—a student named Tatum Bass confessed to cheating, and was later expelled.
Murdoch’s Monster: The Journal of the Plague Years
The Learjet repo man
Business has never been better for the fearless pilot who takes back millionaires’ expensive toys.
The Death of Slow Journalism
The canceling of this year’s Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference is only the latest blow to long-form, story-driven journalism.
Meet Iran’s George W. Bush
Can Anyone Beat Ahmadinejad In This Week’s Election?
The Hamptons Stress Test
As summer begins, what better way to measure Wall Street’s health than a real-estate tour of the Hamptons? For every mansion on the sales or rental market, there’s a story—sometimes involving Bernie Madoff—and brokers are shell-shocked. The author surveys the deals, no-deals, lawsuits, divorces, and teardowns that characterize this strange, dark season.
The Start-up Guru
Paul Graham’s business school and investment fund, Y Combinator, has launched 145 companies — for a lot less money than you would think
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