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This Week - Dec 20, 2013
A lot of art, great art, is made by despicable people.
— Read the "Stomach-Churning" Sexual Assault Accusations
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A weekly digest of essays, tools, cultural bookmarks, and interesting corners of the internet.
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This Week - Dec 13, 2013
So in April, when Google announced it was shutting down Google Reader on July 1, it was almost unsurprising that
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This Week - Dec 06, 2013
By the mid-2000s, however, social media had erased the popular distinction between which life-moments were and were not
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This Week - Nov 29, 2013
Today we are experiencing a dangerous cultural shift towards the expectation of instantaneous response.
— Yes I Saw Your Text, But
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This Week - Nov 22, 2013
In this space between the built reality and the Cabin Porn imagination, a generation of consumers — be they hipsters, wannabe
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This Week - Nov 15, 2013
And perhaps this is why we also now confuse shiny happy hashtag journalism with actual real (and often harsh) journalism.
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This Week - Nov 08, 2013
The Eskimos have all those words for snow, and it seems the only language we have for expressing success is
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This Week - Nov 01, 2013
If you're on food stamps or Medicaid or anything that even tangentially involves a tax dollar, Americans want
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This Week - Oct 25, 2013
After thumbing through three-hundred-plus pages, it occurs to me that the Kinfolk cookbook is a variation on a
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This Week - Oct 18, 2013
The unpaid work I did is a huge part of what advanced my journalism career, and it feels essential and
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