If you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don’t act like Blofeld—monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics....
The biggest lie, he said, is, The Internet is about you. We like to think of ourselves as people who have choice and taste and personalized content. But the Internet isn’t about us. It’s about the com...
Stone announced in early April that if delegates at the Republican National Convention had the nerve to switch from Trump to another candidate, we will disclose [their] hotels and room numbers. Anders...
Psychiatric diagnoses are getting closer and closer to the boundary of normal, said Allen Frances. That boundary is very populous. The most crowded boundary is the boundary with normal.Why? I asked.Th...
Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.
Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified.
Can’t you see? It’s incredibly interesting. Aren’t you struck by how much action occurred simply because something went wrong with one man’s brain? It’s as if the rational world, your world, was a sti...
The world in which Alex is a leading voice — a loose collection of internet conspiracy theorists and nationalists and some racists — suddenly had a name: the alt-right movement.
Stone’s beliefs, I later discovered, were just as crazy as Alex’s. He
She summarized: So. Don’t get shitfaced, don’t fist her ass, enjoy.
She chuckled to herself, pressed send, and wandered around the airport for half an hour, sporadically checking Twitter. I got nothing, she told me. No replies. I imagined her feeling a bit deflated ab...
Serial killers ruin families,’ shrugged Bob. ‘Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.
Is Obama satanic? he asked me. I was grateful for the conversation starter — I consider anything that staves off social awkwardness to be a blessing — but I couldn’t lie.
He had twenty followers. Some were people I knew from real life, who were probably wondering why I’d suddenly become so passionate about fusion cooking and candid about dreaming about cock.
Christopher Cerf has been composing songs for Sesame Street for twenty-five years. His large Manhattan townhouse is full of Sesame Street memorabilia – photographs of Christopher with his arm around B...
The American physician Samuel Cartwright identifying in 1851 a mental disorder, drapetomania, evident only in slaves. The sole symptom was the desire to run away from slavery and the cure was to whip...
When shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes, nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the ava...
There's a societal push for conformity in all ways. There's less tolerance of difference. And so maybe for some people having a label is better. It can confer a sense of hope and direction. (interview...
That’s the psychopath: somebody who doesn’t understand what’s going on emotionally, but understands that something important has happened. But
Let me ask you three questions, he said. And then you’ll see it my way. Question One: What’s the worst thing that you have ever done to someone? It’s okay. You don’t have to confess it out loud. Quest...