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Are We Getting Stupider?
[ad_1] For nineteenth-century writers like Gustave Flaubert, the concept of stupidity came to encompass the lazy drivel of cliché and received opinion; one of Flaubert’s characters says that, in mass...
Building a State of Fear in “Extremist”
[ad_1] On November 16, 2023, Sasha Skochilenko, a thirty-three-year-old artist, poet, and musician, stood in court to give what is known in the Russian judicial system as the “last word”—final...
The Composer Making a Hip-Hop Musical About Anne Frank
[ad_1] A few years ago, Andrew Fox was struck by a transcendently bad idea. He would turn the story of Anne Frank into a satirical hip-hop musical: intersectional, inclusive, and...
Your Logo Should Feel Like A Religion
[ad_1] A logo is not a graphic. It’s a rallying point. I treat it like a symbol people can believe in, not just recognize. That’s the standard that separates forgettable...
Top 6 Logistics and Transportation Companies in North America for Oversized and Heavy Haul Freight
[ad_1] When it comes to moving massive cargoes, think industrial machinery, wind turbine parts, or construction equipment, oversized freight shipping isn’t just about loading a truck and hitting the road....
The Best Podcasts of 2025
[ad_1] Ah, 2025—yet another heck of a year! In the audio realm, as elsewhere, inventiveness is essential during challenging times—so when video-chat podcasts predominate, celebrity-hosted podcasts won’t stop proliferating, and...
Now Watch Me Read
[ad_1] Performing personhood has perhaps never been as panoptical, and top of mind, as it is today. Social-media platforms prioritize the fastidious maintenance and monitoring of online personas, creating spaces...
What Makes Goethe So Special?
[ad_1] On his return to Frankfurt, he found it: the life of Götz von Berlichingen, an early-sixteenth-century knight with a prosthetic iron hand, whose autobiography Goethe had stumbled upon in...
Klaas Verplancke’s “White House of Gold”
[ad_1] For the cover of the December 8, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Klaas Verplancke wanted to capture how, as he put it, “shiny gold pales in comparison to the charm...
Tim Robinson Finds Humanity—and Tests It—in “The Chair Company”
[ad_1] In this outline, “The Chair Company” could be a sketch premise: “guy loses it after embarrassing himself at a big meeting.” This was the problem that bedevilled “Friendship,” an...
