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This Los Angeles Times article, from New Year’s Day 1950, makes a variety of optimistic predictions about the […]

A preface in which our narrator peers into the umbilicus Dr. Norbert Manchego told me at a graduate […]

I once asked the country rock musician Langhorne Slim if his songs were based on his own personal […]

Like so many things in this world, it started with Frank Luntz. The canny Republican strategist warned his […]

It is often said that the United States is a post-industrial society with an information economy. The American […]