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Chris Hedges
Writers Challenge Readers to Confront Gaza’s Atrocities
Peter Beinart, Omar El Akkad, and Chris Hedges deliver dispatches from Gaza, where the West’s moral fiction has collapsed.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Oct 9, 2025
Arts
Artists Use Murals to Build Trust and Mend Fractures in Richmond
In post-monument Richmond, Virginia, a new mural series turns trust into a public art, inviting dialogue as the architecture of civic repair.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Sep 30, 2025
Boygenius
Julien Baker & TORRES Blend Indie Sensibilities with Country Sounds
Julien Baker & TORRES, both architects of raw, emotionally intricate songwriting, have thrown themselves into country music to create a new sound that is authentic, direct, and emotionally honest.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Apr 3, 2025
Adam Becker
The Risks of Silicon Valley’s Grand Visions: AI, Longtermism, and Space Ambitions
Silicon Valley's most pious optimists are disinterested in the future being a horizon, instead focusing on their grand ambitions for AI, space, and humanity's unborn trillions, with some critics arguing that this focus on longtermism and expansion serves to justify their power in the present.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Mar 28, 2025
Alex Lau
Koreaworld Cookbook Celebrates Korean Culture and Global Expansion
Cookbooks are thriving despite the rise of digital media, with Koreaworld being a prime example of a cookbook that celebrates Korean culture worldwide and provides expert curation of stories, ingredients, and recipes.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Dec 30, 2024
artificial intelligence (AI)
Evan Ratliff’s Shell Game Podcast Delves Into AI’s Threat to Our Humanity
Evan Ratliff's podcast Shell Game explores the potential of AI to create digital twins that can fool customer service representatives, scammers, therapists, and loved ones, highlighting the absurdity and exploitation of the system.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Dec 23, 2024
Art
Bianca Bosker: Unveiling the Hidden Art World
In her book, "Get the Picture," Bianca Bosker exposes the elitist barriers of the art world and why they were created.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Sep 30, 2024
Arts
Lucius’s Wildewoman is a Comeback for the Ages
Ten years after an indifferent review, Lucius’s Wildewoman is re-released, proving its timeless appeal and the band’s unrivaled talent for genre-defying music and vocal magic.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Aug 5, 2024
AI
AI-Generated Art—From the 1980s
Long before Midjourney and OpenAI's Dall-E, Harold Cohen’s AARON, revived and running at the Whitney Museum of American Art, showed a more collaborative form of AI art.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Jun 11, 2024
Arts + Culture
Book Review: ‘The Age of Deer’ Explores History, Myth & Imagination
Erika Howsare ventures through centuries, across cultures and geographies and peoples. Her hospitable manner and magnetic subject draws us along through research hidden beneath easy prose.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Feb 21, 2024
David Virelles
Resonant Artistry in David Virelles’s Album ‘Carta’
An intimate, athletic performance in Zurich displays the pianist’s brilliant, unorthodox style found on his latest album.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Feb 20, 2024
PBS’ Disappointing “Human Footprint” Docuseries
Shane Campbell-Staton's well-intentioned storyline is riddled with inexcusable inaccuracies and gross (though convenient) oversimplifications.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Jan 12, 2024
Global Tech
Brian Merchant’s Obsession With Technological Dystopias
In his book, "Blood and the Machine," Merchant jogs our memory of past technological upheavals in an attempt to arm us for the tyrannical change he foresees.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Jan 11, 2024
AI & Innovation Issue 2023
Failing Forward
Tales of love, loss, random threads, and the inscrutable mystery of bureaucracy.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Oct 2, 2023
mixed media
Mixed Media: Stanley Tucci, A Design Pioneer, and Placemaking
An actor tours Italy in search of the soul of a nation, a design pioneer rethinks the impact of his work, and a photographer displays a knack for unsettling placemaking.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Jun 22, 2023
entertainment
Mixed Media: Propaganda, Prosperity, and Chris Hemsworth
An examination of insidious denialist propaganda, lessons from the world’s longest scientific study of happiness, and a new definition of mental and physical limitations.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Mar 19, 2023
books
Mixed Media: Our Debt to the Future, Artistic Podcasting, and a Sustainable Fairytale
Here is what we are reading, watching, and listening to.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Dec 12, 2022
books
Mixed Media: Trees, Billionaires, and Irish Female Leaders
Here's what we're reading, watching, and listening to.
By Jason Allen Ashlock
Oct 14, 2022Newsletter Subscriptions
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