Long-Form Jouralism, Think Pieces & Essays

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Richard Dawkins is so wrong it hurts: What the science-vs.-religion debate ignores
Salon - Sana Saeed
Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton/ABC News/Reuters/Chris Keane) April 5, 2014 5:45PM (UTC) I’m supposed to hate science. Or so I’m told. I spent my childhood
Deciphering The Hidden Messages In “Game Of Thrones” Costumes
Fast Company - By Rebecca Greenfield
Costume designer Michele Clapton reveals what you can learn about the devious, demented characters in season four of Game of Thrones, if only you’d look a little closer at their clothes. Game of Thrones
David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'
The Guardian - David Simon
The creator of The Wire, David Simon, delivered an impromptu speech about the divide between rich and poor in America at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, and how capitalism has lost sight of
The New Face of Heroin
Rolling Stone - David Amsden
Eve Rivait rode her first horse when she was five, too small to get her feet through the stirrups, let alone give the animal a kick that registered. …
Adjusting the Picture
themorningnews.org - by Martin Connelly
I have a confession to make: I stopped watching Mad Men half way through the first season. It’s not that I thought it was no good, it’s just that it …
One Nation, Divisible
The Atlantic - Don Baer and Mark Penn
Our annual American Values Survey finds that the country is badly polarized -- and the blame falls squarely on our political leaders. The second annual Atlantic/Aspen Institute American Values Survey more
How Glenn Greenwald Became Glenn Greenwald
BuzzFeed
Before Glenn Greenwald was the journalist who broke and defended the most important story of 2013, he was many other things: an underage South Florida politician, a lawyer at a high-powered corporate Kips
The secret history of the Bill of Rights
Salon - Michael Lind
June 20, 2013 3:44PM (UTC) Is the Bill of Rights — made up by the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution — the foundation of American liberty? So we are told by civil libertarians on the left alarmed
To Galt’s Gulch They Go | Thomas Frank | The Baffler https://t.co/7SldThJj7q
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Dark Matter
Lisa Randall’s Guide to the Galaxy
smithsonianmag.com - Ron Rosenbaum
Lisa Randall is telling me she may have a clue to the next great mystery in cosmology. We are having lunch in a restaurant at the Charles Hotel, not …
Psychedelic Academe
chronicle.com - By Zoë Corbyn
Illustration by Scott Seymour, original images from Shutterstock You don't have to spend much time at the six-day second international Psychedelic …
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thebaffler.com - Evgeny Morozov
Future Shlock
newrepublic.com - Evgeny Morozov
The sewing machine was the smartphone of the nineteenth century. Just skim through the promotional materials of the leading sewing-machine …
Bowling with God: Vint Cerf Talks Time Travel, Porn, and Web Addiction
Gizmodo - Jeff Jetton and Erik Stallman
They say that success has many parents but failure is an orphan. Judged by that standard—or any other—the Internet is a success. Al Gore invented it. …
How a Career Con Man Led a Federal Sting That Cost Google $500 Million
WIRED - Jake Pearson
Meet the career con man who made a fortune selling illegal pharmaceuticals online—and pulled off a federal sting that forced Google to pay $500 …
The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast - Spencer Ackerman,
If there’s a silver lining to be found in Wednesday’s blockbuster indictment of a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer who allegedly spied for …
British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith – review
The Guardian - Sam Leith
One of the most mythologised aspects of the British secret state has been its attempts to keep tabs on literary intellectuals. As Ian McEwan's last novel Sweet Tooth showed, the idea that poets, novelists