>"Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully _...Read More_

“The movement to criminalize abortion.”

>"How tragic, I thought, to reduce life to a procession of microtransactions or contracts. How naive to believe that some agreed-upon set of values could be formalized into code, or that the problems of politics could be made irrelevant _...Read More_

>"In fact, all the reviews from his Longreads and Reallylongreads have been like this recently, claiming to be about one thing only to be about something else — usually Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, and Rachel Cusk, along with some kind of _...Read More_

"HitPiece didn’t get permission to make its “music NFTs.” Artists who were affected told us what they did about it."

The main problem is that the contemporary American book review is first and foremost an audition — for another job, another opportunity, another day in the content mine, hopefully with better lighting and tools, but at the very least with _...Read More_

"omething close to its modern form first appeared as a concept in the early 16th century, the invention of Spanish jurists who, as their countrymen conquered _...Read More_

In 1627, officials in Cologne, Germany, accused Katharina Henot—a local postmaster and influential socialite—of witchcraft. They claimed she wielded magic, worked with the devil, and had infested a local nunnery with a plague of _...Read More_

>"NFTs are the latest and greatest example of what we might call “virtual Veblen goods.”"

Publisher DC Comics, Inc., a subsidiary of Warner Bros is unhappy with artists using its intellectual property (IP) in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and has its own plans for _...Read More_

“It is time that other countries saw through the outrageous farce … and joined hands to oppose such blatant robberies and maintain _...Read More_

>"The president preferred Jesus’s teachings to his supernatural acts—and edited his copy of the New Testament accordingly."

Few remember Francis’s forceful but narrow “Junius” letters. Burke’s Reflections on the other hand refuses to go away for all of its enduringly human attributes: not the _...Read More_