Hillary Clinton’s Remarkable Victory

Amid the raucous Trumpian noise since the election little attention has been paid to the prodigious size of Hillary Clinton’s popular vote win. It’s not just that the Electoral College is an 18th-century idea whose time has passed; it’s much more about the…

Garrison Keillor: Envoi: Oya Life These Days

Forty years ago, Garrison Keillor contributed the following, one of his New Yorker pieces, to a book I produced called Celebrity: The Media as Image Makers. It served as the envoi to the book, which was a collection of essays by twenty-five writers and…

The Next Medium

by ROBERT RUSSEL

As if to prove that Marshall McLuhan wasn’t the only Canadian with a vision of the future, Robert Russel wrote this series of columns on “The Next Medium” for Take One in 1967. They are remarkably prescient, and we have reprinted the entire series so that…