July 2012
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on jonah lehrer: truth vs fabulism
“Great long-form journalism comes from the author’s irrepressible need to answer a question. Fictional long-form journalism comes from the writer’s irrepressible need to be hailed as an oracle. In the former fabulism isn’t just wrong because it cheats the reader, it’s wrong because it cheats the writer. Manufactured evidence tends not to satiate an aching curiosity....
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“The Sabbath grew into the weekend as industrialization made labor increasingly...”
– The American Scholar: The Weak - William Deresiewicz
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“Sometimes the irony is almost Borat-scale obvious: In early June, Secretary of...”
– Bill McKibben, Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math | Politics News | Rolling Stone 