marginal utility annex

Popular entertainment tends to reinforce a notion that emotional states are easily accessible, identifiable, and instrumentally manipulated....

Here's a shock. Bush's "American Jobs Creation Act," a corporate-welfare scheme by which corporations can repatriate money...

Richard Sennett's excellent The Fall of Public Man depicts the increasing isolation people experience as public life becomes more and m...

The other day I mentioned the temerity of the muscians who named their project "Edie Sedgwick," casually appropriating the identit...

I've just taken a few ibuprofins for my headache, and now I'm indulging my magic faith in medicine, expecting the headache to go awa...

I am one of maybe seventeen people in the New York metro area who doesn't have a cell phone. I have many good reasons for this: one is m...

Nothing is more toxic than management-speak: the numbing jargon, the -ize verbs, the pretentiousness, the hubris and the blinkered myopia of...