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While corporate culture has long attracted talented graduates with the promise of status and security, Kurt Andersen believes that our era’s sense of urgency and instability is pushing America’s youth […]
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Kurt Andersen has worked across a wide variety of mediums, yet nothing compares to the challenge of writing fiction. Here he gives advice on everything from mapping out a project […]
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While subversive novelists have historically stood as a spokesperson for their generations, Kurt Andersen believes that, in today’s world, the serious writer is destined for obscurity.
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Microsoft's Chairman has an eye on Africa.
The edge of our solar system is nothing like we thought.
The origins of aggression.
Is the South African government in bed with Airbus?
A baby hits the rails and suffers a bump on his head.
First Lady as an action figure?
A text message that saved.
An accident full of hot air.
Fashion historian Caroline Weber will never forget the time she was riding the Metro in Paris while wearing a pink vintage cape. "Within five minutes I was incredibly uncomfortable because […]
Obama says he can take the jabs
Rogue justice in Tangipahoa Parish
No government has done more to modernize their society by introducing more Western culture than the United Arab Emirates. The emirate of Dubai alone has already introduced the desert to […]
As part of its effort to reinvent itself, the Republican National Committee launched a completely redesigned website earlier in the week. The problem is not so much that the website […]
Technology and media bloggers have been quick to declare the death of print, both in newspaper and book format. The bold new future will come to us through e-readers like […]
A recent article in Time magazine (http://bit.ly/H8rac) discussed why the world's poor don't buy insurance. This is something that I have been thinking about for a few years now. Recent […]
Food purists, proponents of family farming and sustainable grub, Big Ag haters, pregnant ladies, and anyone else who gives a damn what they put in their mouth, sound the alarms. […]