The magicians’ cemetery
It feels a little tired to write about Houdini and Halloween, like a last resort. You know the basics: Houdini died in Detroit on Oct. 31, 1926, at Grace Hospital…
The Best Substack Alternatives
It would be hard to leave Substack, granted. They are a very good, normal company—one that does not at all enable extremism (wink.) Everything Substack does is justified, and good,…
CEO Chris Best on racism on Substack
Substack CEO Chris Best on why racism is ok on substack
Eugene Debs Really Liked Bicycles
The mission of the bicycle is greatly underrated. Human ingenuity, in evolving the bicycle, has given man a mighty boon. It is to play a great part in the world’s…
This machine needs us but doesn’t care about us
“I think the pandemic really gave industry workers a footing to stand on and get started,” Hanley went on. “People were patting industry workers on the back, saying we’re ‘essential’…
Why have you never heard of Kavumu? Because media is broken.
If journalists believe readers don’t care about places like Congo, they’re not going to cover it. But if outlets don’t write about places that are “hard” to cover, then readers…