Salvos

Withering on the Vine
Thomas Frank Issue No. 30
Were you to draw a Venn diagram of Democrats, meritocrats, and plutocrats, the space where they intersect would be an island seven miles off the coast of Massachusetts called Martha’s Vineyard. A little bit smaller… Read More »
Despair Fatigue
David Graeber Issue No. 30
Is it possible to become bored with hopelessness? There is reason to believe something like that is beginning to happen in Great Britain. Call it despair fatigue. For nearly half a century, British culture, particularly… Read More »
The New Man of 4chan
Angela Nagle Issue No. 30
“The first of our kind has struck fear into the hearts of America,” announced one commenter last year on the giddily offensive /r9k/ board of the notorious, anarchic site 4chan. “This is only the beginning…. Read More »
Taking Liberties
Ann Neumann Issue No. 30
Like the slow-motion collapse of most empires, the end of Chuck Dederich’s sprawling rehabilitation-cum-alternative lifestyle community, Synanon, began with an unforgivable—and some say uncharacteristic—act of hypocrisy. Dederich was playing The Game, the confrontational group therapy… Read More »
Keep Fear Alive
Kade Crockford Issue No. 30
“If you’re submitting budget proposals for a law enforcement agency, for an intelligence agency, you’re not going to submit the proposal that ‘We won the war on terror and everything’s great,’ cuz the first… Read More »
Against Activism
Astra Taylor Issue No. 30
Almost a decade ago I attended a conference called “1968” at a nondescript college in New Jersey. Mark Rudd, a student radical turned community college math instructor living out his retirement in New Mexico, delivered… Read More »
Everybody Freeze!
Corey Pein Issue No. 30
Narratives are made by the artful omission of facts. Never was this maxim more evident than in a gullible feature story that landed on the front page of the New York Times last fall, about… Read More »
They Made Him a Moron
Evgeny Morozov Issue No. 30
One day in October 2009, I received an email from the office of Alec Ross, then the innovation adviser to Hillary Clinton. Informing me that my writing on technology and global affairs had attracted considerable… Read More »