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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

Like Hypnotized Chickens

Werner Herzog has been known to hypnotize chickens; he also hypnotized the cast of his 1976 film Heart of Glass. The movie is excellent—but the method is terrifying. Why hypnotism is terrifying.

The Mob Began to Think and Reason

David Graeber, an anthropologist and key figure in the Occupy Wall Street protests, dissects the deeply undemocratic origins of America and the meaning of anarchy in this excerpt from his book The Democracy Project.