Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
One morning last August I visited Williams College in Massachusetts to teach a workshop on “building a life in the arts” with a group of racially, geographically, and economically diverse young people working at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Later that night I attended a show at the theater, where I saw these idealistic apprentices taking…
About this project Being beautiful is tough We’re always under the pressure of looking good. We live in a fast paced world where we are expected to get things done quickly. You already have enough to worry about – and all it takes is just one spill to ruin your day. We need clothes that…
Last week I critiqued Bernie Sanders for dismissing reparations specifically, and for offering up a series of moderate anti-racist solutions, in general. Some felt it was unfair to single out Sanders given that, on reparations, Sanders’s chief opponent Hillary Clinton holds the same position. This argument proposes that we abandon the convention of judging our…
The “reductive seduction” is not malicious, but it can be reckless. For two reasons. First, it’s dangerous for the people whose problems you’ve mistakenly diagnosed as easily solvable. There is real fallout when well-intentioned people attempt to solve problems without acknowledging the underlying complexity. There are so many examples. As David Bornstein wrote in The…
“New York City Is Going Crazy Over These Insane Next-Level Milkshakes,” proclaims a BuzzFeed post posted yesterday, which already has over a million views. I too am going crazy over these milkshakes, because they are abominable. They are the Melania Trump of food options and they are so extra I want to die. The milkshakes…
Alejandro Aravena of Chile, whose work is modest, practical, and exceptionally elegant, has been awarded the 2016 Pritzker Prize. Last year, the jury for the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most celebrated award in architecture, selected the German architect Frei Otto, who was 89 when he got the good news. Otto died two weeks later and…
Photo Credit Tomer Hanuka HARTFORD — “Where did I learn about sexual consent?” Jonathan Kalin was standing before an auditorium of Trinity College freshmen, pressing play on a clip from the movie “Superbad.” The 2007 film, you may recall, tells the story of two schlubby high school friends on a quest to lose their virginity…
WARNING: STAR WARS SPOILERS AHEAD! It’s the late 1970s. My parents are visiting with friends, and I’ve been relegated to the upstairs room with the other kids even though I’d prefer to be sitting downstairs with the adults. There’s a television upstairs, and a VCR, and a movie playing on the screen. It shows a…
Yes, this is a real site. NO I will not give the URL. Source: GIS Dating is a big topic in my household right now. For starters, my daughter is a teenager. Plus, I’m a single GeekDad now (help me). A lot of my friends in my same situation have been talking to me about…
FRANKFURT — Uber is rapidly expanding its ride-hailing operations across the globe. But here in this city of 690,000 — less than the population of San Francisco, Uber’s hometown — the company recently did something unusual: It retreated. In early November, Uber shut its small office in Frankfurt’s centuries-old city center after just 18 months…