Salvos

  • a man's face, blue, stares out from within a collage of women's bodies.

    Boys Will Be Men

    Amber A’Lee Frost    Issue No. 30

    The first time I heard about Tucker Max I was still finishing up college, vaguely toying with the idea of getting a master’s degree in gender studies. But here, it seemed, was a popcult phenom… Read More »

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    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 »

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    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 »

  • A frog rampant.

    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 »

  • A figure is doused with root beer while new age bystanders look on.

    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 »

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    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 »

  • A blue figure sadly observes a flag-waving group standing atop the number one.

    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 »

  • A snake digests severed human heads.

    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 »

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