Editors

Automation Makes Us Dumb
Nicholas Carr, The Wall Street Journal

The Crowdsourcing Scam
Jacob Silverman, The Baffler

Elegy in Which a Bird Appears
Jody Rambo, Verse Daily

Calm Down, Liberal and Conservative Catholics, the Church Won’t Break
Charlotte Allen, LA Times

Sacred Art
Pelagia Horgan, Aeon

One Carries It Around Within
Brett Foster, Books & Culture

From Folk Tales to Internet Pests
Heather O’Donoghue, The Times Literary Supplement

The Secret Life of Passwords
Rumsey Taylor & Josh Williams, The New York Times

The Shrinking World of Ideas
Arthur Krystal, The Chronicle of Higher Education

I am skeptical of memorials which work harder to bring their subject to life than mark its death, which is why I found respite in the book shop. There I picked up a copy of Lawrence Wright’s Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. It is an engrossing (the word used for enjoyment when enjoyment is a word one can’t use) read, detailing how Al Qaeada rose unnoticed except by a few unheard men before seizing everyone’s attention. The history feels like a warning. Continue Reading »

The Microaggression Farce
Heather MacDonald, City Journal

The Myth of AI
John Brockman, Edge

What Will Stay Behind?
Abraham Sutzkever, Poetry Magazine

Front Porch Revolution
Gracy Olmstead, The American Conservative

The Modern Supermarket Is a Miracle
Kyle Peterson, The American Spectator

When Did the Art World Get So Conservative?
Jerry Saltz, Vulture

Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji: The Rapid Evolution of a Wordless Tongue
Adam Sternbergh, New York Magazine

The War Against Rest
Benjamin J. Dueholm, The Christian Century

The Fall of Facebook
Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic

The Hard Work of Marriage
Zoe Heller, The New York Review of Books

Peter Thiel’s Guide to Building the Future
Isaiah Berg, Fare Forward

The Myth of Racist Britain
Mick Hume, Spiked

John Cleese on Monty Python and the State of Comedy
Alexandra Wolfe, The Wall Street Journal

In Defense of Homer
Kate Havard, The Washington Free Beacon

The Truth About Anonymous’s Activism
Adrian Chen, The Nation

The Museum
Yves Bonnefoy, The Poetry Foundation

Wonder and the Ends of Inquiry
Lorraine Daston, The Point

Literary Fight Clubs
Elaine Showalter, Prospect Magazine

Distributism Isn’t Outdated
James Mumford, The American Conservative