This month’s books newsletter is about seeing the big picture.
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Posted inBusiness & Tech, Highlight, Media, Nonfiction, Quotes
Distraction is the New Censorship
Ideas don’t need to be deleted or redacted to be silenced. They can just be drowned out.
Posted inBooks, Commentary
This Month In Books: ‘This Is Really Not What I Want To Be Reading’
This month’s books newsletter is jam-packed with scammers, censors, and … other books.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story
Out of Toon
Political cartoons don’t make a huge chunk of change, but they do change the culture. If only that were as valuable to the media as money.
Posted inFeature, History, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized
Glass, Pie, Candle, Gun
Before he founded High Times, Tom Forcade was a renegade journalist willing to throw a pie—or a lawsuit—in the face of anyone restricting his constitutional freedoms.
Posted inStory
The Artificial Intelligence of the Public Intellectual
Today’s public intellectuals have their own version of the American Dream, where one person, on their own, can achieve anything — including being the smartest person in the room.
Posted inArts & Culture, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Shelved: Lee Hazlewood’s Cruisin’ For Surf Bunnies
It’s no surprise that the legendary songwriter and producer dabbled in surf music. What’s surprising is why music this good remained unreleased for 50 years.
Posted inStory
After a Fashion
Trying so hard to set trends for the future, fashion’s institutions can’t stop stumbling over the past (and the present).
Posted inEditor's Pick
It’s the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech
Tactics that erode trust and attention have become the new censorship. They may not be breaking any existing laws, but they are effectively upending many conceptual, legal, and ethical assumptions we have around free speech.
