When it finally sunk in that I’m not the next Nabokov, I got pretty depressed for a while. I started to wish […]
Pettiness often manifests itself as an outsize form of revenge — responding to mild slights by putting an absurd amount of energy […]
1. FB promised to be and, in many ways, has become a new public square. It was never private. The insistence that […]
It would be easy to assume, surveying the national scene, that pettiness is universally regarded as a bad thing. But in other […]
The internet of the 1990s was a perfect canvas for alarmism: hard to define, easy to misunderstand, growing rapidly but not yet […]
Before 1930, moving picture aspect ratios were all over the place. But mass distribution requires standardization, so influential filmmakers met in Hollywood […]
Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms: as “users” or “members of a community”. Their leaders […]
I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has been an increase in the permissibility of the […]
…the most significant way in which the Islamic State has exhibited its media savviness has been through its embrace of openness. Unlike […]
If the West really wants to destroy the Islamic State’s “deceptive media halo,” we need to take a page from them and […]
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