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"On the final night of a beloved Berlin bar, Adina Glickstein ponders the uses and abuses of that slippery thing known as “evil” – the subject of a new book by artist and musician Steven Warwick."

From Dimes Square to the Network State, new frontiers are in the making. Adina Glickstein attends Urbit Assembly and considers the politics of tech-augmented exit. _...Read More_

"Some pure joys persist, bear market be damned. We will always have love, which is maybe also suffering. The perverse pleasure of exposure, _...Read More_

>"The eighteen-year-old who committed a racist killing spree in Buffalo last weekend spent many months developing his plans on the Internet."

"Elizabeth Claire on the culture of dancing madness in post-terror Paris."

The first people I fell in love with were terrorists. The German fear of the communist Red Army Fraction (RAF) peaked in 1977, when I turned eight years old. Since then, every time I accompanied my mother to the post office, I went straight _...Read More_

>"As the author’s remarkable trilogy ends, her epic hero’s self-mastery is newly in doubt."