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What’s Left of the Back-to-the-Landers
The book is, among other things, a record of the beguiling hand-built structures that were a foundation of the movement. Some, like the finely crafted buildings designed by the architect...
Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?
The section on Montagu and the Balfour Declaration makes one of Moser’s central arguments especially clear—namely, that prewar European nationalism and Zionism held a deep affinity because both envisioned Jews...
Colin Kaepernick Misses the Game
Kaepernick’s lasting effect on the game came on the sidelines, when, in the wake of several police shootings of Black men, he took a knee in protest during the national...
AI Note Taker on Your Wrist: Apple Watch Now Listens
You have probably already sat in a meeting where someone’s laptop was quietly transcribing, and nobody said anything. Apple used Wednesday’s Surprise and Shine keynote to move that capability onto...
Term Sheet Lessons: 5 Takeaways From Listen Labs
A signed term sheet feels like the finish line, right up until somebody better walks through the door. TechCrunch reported on September 9 that Listen Labs had signed one and...
The Sartorial Riches of the Silent-Film Era
Also: the neo-soul of Erykah Badu, a festival of Indian classical dance, John Wilson’s ode to concrete, and more. Source link
“My Brilliant Career” Was the Sleeper Hit of the Summer
In the recent TV adaptation of the classic Australian novel “My Brilliant Career,” from 1901, a childhood of running, swimming, and speaking freely in the bush comes to an abrupt...
Hardware Startups: 5 Lessons From a $450M Space Round
A European spacecraft company announced a $450 million Series C on September 8, the largest round of its kind ever raised by a space company on the continent, and the...
“Favorite Bodies,” by Lydia Davis
I told her that I’d been reading an article about morticians. One of the morticians interviewed had said something that was a revelation. Source link
Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
Privacy has long been a contested subject in American law. The Constitution does not explicitly guarantee a right to privacy—the word itself never appears in the text—and courts have spent...
