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Glen HinesOct 9, 20159 min read

A High We Have to Have: On Football, Concussions and Accepting the Past

MelanieJan 244 min read

GenX: before the Millenials

Before hipsters could even be the hipsters, before they were stealing their older sister’s/brother’s/cousin’s…

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Gary LarsonJan 241 min read

The Trigger-Happy Generation

“I notice lately that some members of your generation are being called, derisively, Snowflakes. Are you really a frail, special and delicate little thing that might melt when the heat is on?

Do you wish to be known as the first generation that comes…

Jim NelsonAug 5, 201519 min read

Haruki Murakami, Underground & Studs Terkel, Working

Haruki Murakami is the enviable writer who, in certain circles, has become a canon unto himself. Murakami is often compared to many different authors — Kafka, Carver, Brautigan — but the list is so diverse it’s difficult to pigeonhole his…

Anthony MahramusApr 4

Maybe I’m McDonald’s and Medium is Wendy’s, and we’re both selling hamburgers but providing different experiences. Or maybe we’re two Burger Kings in the same shopping plaza and peop...

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Carina Sitkus 🌲

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What does it say about our culture that this was the clearest and best way to make us understand what Carina was getting at? Taught by advertising and reinforced through neighborhood saturation, we all know the subtle differences between McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Burger King to make this an apt and telling analogy.

Jess Brooks in Grabbag and ChillsJun 19, 20152 min read

“We Live in an Age of Irrational Parenting”

“Bluntly put: It’s hard to think of a safer time and a better place than the United States of 2015 to raise children — but we act as though the opposite were true… National crime rates have been falling since the early ‘90s. It’s something we adults…