Tag: essays
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Eric Voegelin (born Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin, German: [ˈføːgəliːn]; 1901–1985) was a German-American political philosopher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Voegelin more ›
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Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the June 8, 1970, issue of New York. We’re republishing it here, along with most of Tom Wolfe’s writing for the magazine, to accompany the September 2023… more ›
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Overheard in a cowboy bar in Roswell, New Mexico…. FIRST COWBOY: Hey, Jed. How are you? How you feeling? https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a40376194/truman-capote-la-cote-basque/ more ›
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As most of the major media categories — music, video and video games — have existed for decades, we tend to forget that media is technology. Instead, we think of… more ›
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Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not… more ›
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“If the matrix and the recursive list are, in a sense, the basic data structures of software, the story is the basic data structure of human beings.” – Cyberflow –… more ›