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Rational Irrationality
The Twitter Bubble?by John Cassidy
Exxon Mobil trades at a multiple of seven times its cash flow. For Twitter, that multiple is five hundred and forty-one…
News Desk
Morsi’s Chaotic
Day in Courtby Peter Hessler
The first day of the former Egyptian President’s trial left an impression of a nation without a clear path, lurching through cycles of vengeance…
Books
The Dirtiest Book
in the Canonby Joan Acocella
Boccaccio’s Decameron features unfraught sex of a kind that has probably not been wholly comprehensible to Western people since the Reformation…
Daily Comment
Yankees and Sox: Rivals No More?by Ian Crouch
The teams have been moving toward a détente for several years, and now, in Bill de Blasio, New York has an unabashed Boston fan for a mayor…
Elements
Death by Moon Dustby Kate Greene
The tiny, glass-like shards that make up lunar dust pose more of a threat to potential moon settlements than does radiation…
The Latest
11/7 4:05 PM
Science and Its Skeptics
What science really needs is greater enthusiasm for those people who are willing to invest the time to try to sort
11/7 3:52 PM
Toronto’s Rob Ford Problem
As everyone who watches “The Daily Show” or “David Letterman” sort of knows, Toronto elected Rob Ford to be its sixty-fourth
11/7 3:20 PM
Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part VIII
Recently, I found Mother’s wartime identity card, which has become an object of contemplation…
11/7 2:35 PM
In Search of a Lost Fats Waller Musical
Until recently, “Early to Bed,” a Broadway show about a whorehouse in Martinique with music by Fats Waller, was largely a
11/7 2:23 PM
Video: The Farm Barge Takes Manhattan
few weeks after leaving Ferrisburgh, Vermont, on the Ceres, a homemade sailing barge, Erik Andrus and his small crew reached New
11/7 1:43 PM
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, November 7th
Paul Noth’s Daily Cartoon for Thursday, November 7th.
11/7 1:10 PM
In Search of Chechen Identity
'Spasibo,' is a monograph and exhibition by the Italian photojournalist Davide Monteleone, an examination of Chechen identity after centuries of violence
Editors’ Choice
Annals of Linguistics
One Language to Rule Them Allby Joshua Foer
An amateur linguist loses control of his creation.
Profiles
Jack Dorsey,
After Twitterby D. T. Max
The entrepreneur wants to prove that he’s not just lucky.
