Readings

How to Spy Better

Data mining works for preventing credit card fraud; less so for foiling terror plots. How the NSA’s surveillance strategy might be less effective than that of the neighbourhood gossip.

Anything Can Be an Instrument: Fugazi’s ‘In on the Kill Taker’ Turns 20

Looking back on Fugazi's “breakthrough” album, and how the band's punk-rock-schoolmarm act might have inspired a fan-base in a way few others could.

Superman is Jewish

In the words of Larry Tye: "When a name ends in 'man,’ the bearer is Jewish, a superhero, or both." Yes, Superman is both. And he makes me want to be a better Jew.

||Pablo Picasso
The Problem of Suicide and How We Talk About it

After the recent spate of heart-rending, very public teen suicides, Alexandra Kimball navigates the murky channels of suicide, its coverage by the media, and the contagion effect.