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Tweeting @ Thoreau

Walden is often championed as an anti-technology manifesto. But this misses the value Thoreau found in conversations spread across vast spans of time and distance.

John Tinnell

Science & Nature

The Man Who Invented Information Theory

Of the pioneers who drove the information technology revolution, Claude Shannon may have been the most brilliant. A new book resurrects his legacy.

Tom Rutledge

Literature & Culture

The Obsessions of Hitchcock, Welles, and Kubrick

A new book takes on the titans of twentieth-century cinema, fetishes and all.

Jonathan Kirshner

Literature & Culture

Inside Every Utopia Is a Dystopia

A new biography of Norman Bel Geddes, designer of the Futurama, tells the story of American innovation.

John Crowley

Gender & Sexuality

Songs of White Innocence

Why did the alt-right, so eager to excuse Milo Yiannopoulos, finally turn on him?

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

#Milosexual and the Aesthetics of Fascism

Milo Yiannopoulos was the paradoxical posterboy for the alt-right's fascist aesthetic. Until he wasn't.

Daniel Penny

Literature & Culture, Philosophy & Religion

Mourning 9/11 Fifteen Years Later

America continues to be haunted by our need to grieve.

Ingrid Norton

Literature & Culture

The Passions

Tilda Swinton, icon of indy cinema, is masterful in A Bigger Splash.

Alan A. Stone

Politics

Trump and the End of Everything

Trump will have done real damage even if he doesn't win.

Jonathan Kirshner

Literature & Culture

Lillian Ross: Witness

Before there was New Journalism, there was Lillian Ross.

Jacqui Shine

Politics, Race

Trump Voters Are Awakening America from Its Post-Racial Dream

Donald Trump’s backers force the U.S. to confront its long-submerged id.

Simon Waxman

Literature & Culture, Politics

Survey Says . . .

Polls are bad at picking presidents but still have much to teach us.

Claude S. Fischer

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