Miniver Cheevy

Freddie at L'Hôte has a rant — bullshit social climber faux-antiracism — about a paradox in contemporary social justice activism. ...

Warren Ellis' Stormwatch is a story about a superhero team which is a meditation on the whole idea of superhero teams. My favorite...

I don't agree with Khoi Vinh's argument in Wearables, Fashion, and iWatch that a successful wearable device needs to somehow acc...

This film of people kissing for the first time made the rounds a while back: There was some criticism that the film was disinge...

Even if you don't care about urban design, you may want to check out this gorgeously presented solution for intersections which suppo...

.... I draw attention to one very widespread controversial habit — disregard of an opponent’s motives. The key-word here is ‘objectively’...

I'm amused that Kevin Spacey has decided that Frank Underwood should have a life beyond House of Cards . At the White House Corres...

Timothy Geithner's book Stress Test reveals some striking things about him, if Matthew Stoller's review in Vice, The Con Artist ...

Bruce Sterling has a great little meditation on Bohemianism. Professor Seigel's book [ Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and t...

Original post This keeps coming up. So a quick word about terrorism. The word “terrorism” is notoriously difficult to define. H...

Elizabeth Warren tells an instructive story about American politics in her 2014 book A Fighting Chance that is relevant to politics ... ...

I have love for a certain kind of engineering solution which presents a kind of charmed confluence of design, materials, and technical ...

This keeps coming up. So a quick word about democracy. “Democracy” does not mean elections. It does not mean “two wolves and a sh...

A project to create custom dice for tabletop roleplaying. I'll be expanding this post progressively.

A collection of commentaries, mostly on the HBO adaptation, from before its disappointing conclusion. Feudalism The problem L...

Helen Keller: So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me ‘arch p...