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Culture

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Culture

Fast bikes, slow food, and the workplace wars

If boring labor is a threat to one’s humanity, it stands to reason that interesting labor can be a form of redemption. The Victorian sage

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Caleb Crain on the New Alain de Botton

Caleb Crain excoriates Alain de Botton for closet snobbery.…

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Lingering | n+1

Naturally everyone wants to believe that by spending time online we are not steadily depriving real art, thought, and journalism of the attention and—since so …

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Grade Grubber | n+1

Considered in the most cynical light, the American system of education as it now exists is a status machine, absorbing young citizens, sorting them according …

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Scattershot, Desperate, and Sleazy | n+1

Reading Craigslist, I feel as though I am dipping my cup straight into the swift-flowing stream of human need.

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Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soul Craft

As Michael Agger writes:

We all can’t become motorcycle mechanics. And while Crawford would not be so unsubtle as to suggest direct prescriptions for happiness,

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