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Books, Culture & the Arts
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
What Good Were the Video Game Console Wars?
Our writing fellow pines for times when the video game industry wasn’t so consolidated and littered with junk fees galore.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
When One Story Isn’t Enough
Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is a brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Osage people. But it doesn’t go far enough to explain how systemic it all was.
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The Real Bayard Rustin
Today on TAP: You owe it to yourself to see the original, not the biopic.
Posted inWorking in America
Nefarious Corporate Overlord Accidentally Kick-Starts Media Company
Gamurs Group fired the editor in chief of The Escapist. Most of the publication joined him to start something new, a worker cooperative called Second Wind.
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When a Feminist Content Sweatshop Was the Coolest Thing On the Internet
Jezebel is widely blamed for starting “cancel culture.” But 16 years ago, most culture desperately needed to be canceled.
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Lies My Corporation Told Me
A new book lays out 150 years of corporate stooges making bogus arguments.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Moral Authority of Marc Rowan
The private equity billionaire is leading a boycott of an Ivy League oligarch factory over a Palestinian literary festival it held last month.
Posted inBooks
Fixing Disinformation Online
What will it take to regulate the abuses of Big Tech without undermining free speech?