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Political and cultural criticism, satire, and salvos. Since 1988. Online and in print.

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    May 7

    Issue 45, “Chronic Youth,” is now available online and in print. This time around, we’re covering teen bosses, Christsploitation, and the dark side of Disney’s dreamworld.

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  2. 1 hour ago

    Catholic reactionaries in the US and Ireland are professionally and ideologically linked, and their networks are remarkably well-funded.

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    4 hours ago

    I don't say this very often about music journalism, but 's is truly doing important work. Read this latest in her long string of excellent pieces about music streaming: how Spotify commodifies happiness.

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  4. 5 hours ago

    “As rendered on My So-Called Life, the Sartrean ordeal of waiting for life to happen in the nineties seemed an especially listless undertaking.”

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    Jun 11

    // just dropped a new banger. 's biz plan isn't foremost about selling you access to music, but selling your emotional state to the mood industry...

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    7 hours ago

    For Spotify the commodity is no longer music. It is behavioral data about users and their moods. Data that is then sold to companies like Dunkin' Donuts, Wild Turkey, or BMW. Knowing your vulnerabilities makes you an easier and more profitable target.

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  7. 7 hours ago

    Ayn Rand Leans In:

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  8. 8 hours ago

    “My So-Called Life” is a relic of a bygone age—a decade that felt, at the time, like the end of history.

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    9 hours ago

    I'm at giving out about right wing Irish Americans and I don't mention Michael Flatley even once, I promise

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    Jun 10

    this is terrifying and absolutely crucial reading for anyone interested in music thank you

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  11. 8 hours ago

    Spotify AND brands AND your innermost thoughts and fears? Think of the synergy!

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    23 hours ago

    My new novel Bottle Grove is about transformative times in a rapidly changing city—something all of us in SF are thinking about. Read :

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  13. 9 hours ago

    Michael Brendan Dougherty, who has never lived in Ireland but claims heritage from his father, believes himself to be an arbiter of Irish identity, all in the name of a reactionary nationalist project.

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  14. 11 hours ago

    From Miya Tokumitsu, on “My So-Called Life” and the teens of the listless decade:

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  15. 12 hours ago

    Lisa Duggan’s “Mean Girl” is a short, punchy, focused cultural study in Rand and the world she created. It offers us a chance to better understand—and thus, resist—the Randian world we all live in.

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    Jun 11

    My latest column from ⁦⁩ ... End of Rand | Richard A. Greenwald

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  17. Retweeted
    Jun 10

    This is DARK. If you use Spotify, they’re sucking up data about your moods and selling it to companies who then immediately target you with mood-based ads. This is vampiric. I’m very happy with my 4 iPods and ownership of my own soul, thanks.

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  18. Jun 11

    Sorry, pundits. Teens understand Trump better than the, ah, “adults in the room.” He’s just like them!

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  19. Jun 11

    . So, uh...

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  20. Jun 11

    From (who is currently suspended from this hell-site for promoting his book on the radical right), how limp come-together narratives fail in the face of one-sided violence:

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  21. Jun 11

    For a certain class, the case against Kavanaugh wasn’t just a slight to Kavanaugh, but an indictment of the entire conservative intellectual elite. It implied that they might lose access to the power they believed to be their birthright.

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