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I was part of the "protest" march on Sunday afternoon in New York, though what was being protested was not entirely clear. It was ...

A prescient book from the fifties called Motivation in Advertising, by adman Pierre Martineau, reads like a map to our current public spher...

I had the misfortune of having to drive from Queens to Jersey City this afternoon in the midst of the weekend escape traffic, and while I wa...

I was riding an N train to Astoria after work a few weeks ago and I observed something that I had thought was only urban legend. Two guys we...

An article by Mark Greif in the September 2004 Harper's (reprinted from the journal n+1 ) offers an interesting assessment of the Ameri...

This past Saturday I went to Little Steven's "International Underground Garage Festival," a curious name, because it took plac...

This article in the London Review of Books -- LRB | Steven Shapin : The Great Neurotic Art -- investigates the Atkins diet craze from a lof...