Nature Hates a Vacuum Cleaner

I have never really understood the passion for hunting. Whenever I see an animal or a bird in the wild, it does not cross my mind to kill it. I have even been charged by an elephant without wishing that I could shoot it: I wished it only to go away. I acknowledge, of course, that the passion for hunting exists, and not only among people whom I would ...


The Little Blonde Gypsy Girl

Investigators who"€™d raided a dilapidated Roma camp in central Greece last week in search of illegal drugs and firearms didn"€™t expect to find a pale-skinned four-year-old girl that one Greek paper is now calling "€œa blonde ...

The Gulag Peninsula

If caught reading the wrong book in the Soviet Union you weren’t interrogated, you were imprisoned. On many occasions people were simply murdered. Of course, there was usually a “trial” first. Comparing communist ...

From the Coliseum to the Octagon

Mixed martial arts is one of the world’s fastest-growing sports, and many say it is already more popular than boxing. Yet MMA's sociological and historical significance seems hardly to have been given a second thought. Our ...

Consumer Culture’s Top Five Failures

This is the time of year when we celebrate the national religion of consumerism. Future archeologists might presume we were propitiating some kind of subterranean god by purchasing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of consumer items ...

Real Rules for Fake Radicals

What will the much-ballyhooed Occupy Wall Street movement do when it’s officially declared to be on life support? If you believe the Los Angeles Times, the OWS movement is going from protest to policy. That’s a nice way to say that ...

Sean Hoare

Too Many Inconvenient Truths

On July 18, 2011, Sean Hoare was found mysteriously deceased by London police. This is notable for two reasons. The first reason is that Hoare was a primary whistle-blower in the unfolding crisis at News Corporation. The scandal has ...

Cultural Caviar

10 Picks for the Week Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman Sam Wasson’s new book, about the making of Breakfast At Tiffany’s uncovers all sorts of juicy ...

Cultural Caviar

10 Picks for the Week Sonar International Music Conference and Multimedia Art, Barcelona, Spain, June 17 - 19 It is that time of year again… This is three nights and days of cutting edge electronic music mayhem. DJ sets, ...

Cultural Caviar

Pierre Bergé Design Sale, Brussels, Belgium, June 9 Tom Dixon, Marcel Breuer, Alberto Giacometti, The Lalannes, Line Vautrin, Serge Mouille, Pierre Jeanneret, Joe Colombo, and many more works by renowned designers will be up for ...


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