A bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape is worth three to four times more than a bottle of Côtes du Rhône made the same way in a neighbouring village.

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I have authority.

(on being a big baby)

How we are defined by our obsessions

One night, when I was fourteen, my mom caught me reading the New Testament and scolded me as though it were an issue of Hustler. My aunt, a euphoric recent convert to evangelical Christianity, had dro...

How stories destroy

The foundation of the attention economy (or lack thereof)

What happens if half the population is no longer involved in reading and writing?