I realized that I probably saw the movie in a painfully unique light. As I rode down the theater escalator and exited the building, the sobs I had been holding in began breaking out in spurts. I walked aimlessly on the streets of Toronto, a migraine forming...
It is in one sense simply another instance of a familiar story: Billionaire buys important vector for public discourse. Perhaps you’ve noticed that it’s been happening a lot lately. In 2013, Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for the comparatively minuscule sum of $250 million. Five year...
Born December 16, 1927—Randall Garrett. Ahhh, Lord Darcy. When writing this up, I was gobsmacked to discover that he’d written only one such novel,Too Many Magicians, as I clearly remembered reading reading more than that number. Huh. That and two collections,Murder and MagicandLord Dar...
马斯克,一名不典型的Twitter典型用户 Elon Musk Is a Typical Twitter User, Except for One ThingIn many ways, Elon Musk uses Twitter like the rest of us. He likes to joke around, but isn’t as funny as…
Unlike his peers in conservative media, Pool wasn’t boosted by the usual suspects. Neither the Koch brothers, the Mercer clan, nor another deep-pocketed billionaire forked over seed money, and he didn’t game Facebook’s algorithms. Fox News has more or less ignored him,...