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Media
And as long as we’re on the topic of bullshit: the degree to which the female-targeted media industrial complex wants to keep these images away
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Culture
We have yet to take Google’s measure. We’ve seen nothing like it before, and we already perceive much of our world through it. We would
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Media
We are living in the age of number-crunchers, not narrators. On Wall Street, in Silicon Valley, in Bangalore and in Shanghai, the new technologies and
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Culture
Writing, remember, is the only art in which the creator is publicly judged by people who do precisely the same thing, but as a rule
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Culture
At once rarefied and accessible, with a singular visual style that’s impossible to carbon-date, Wings has earned its place alongside the likes of The Seventh
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Culture
The country’s leading think-tank describes the gender imbalance among newborns as the most serious demographic problem facing China. The surplus of bachelors — known as
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Culture
Paging David Foster Wallace:
A huge Royal Caribbean liner docked 60 miles away from Haiti’s devastation in the heavily guarded resort of Labadee, and it
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Culture
Marriage is Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell standing side by side in the closing scene of His Girl Friday, nattering on with the same jollity
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