A breathless meal of scallops and feminist bona fides exposed her vulnerability: No one, not even…
Author: Virginia Heffernan
Tundra-Trailblazing Beavers Shaped How We Coexist
The buck-toothed rodents have long taken the lead in forging civilization's path forward.
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Is a Terrible Houseguest
As details of his democracy-bending relationship with Roger Stone break, Julian Assange is proving guests, like…
How Hyperinflation Destroys Much More Than Just Currencies
To call hyperinflation strictly an economic problem is to overlook its wrenching cultural implications and a…
Things Break and Decay on the Internet—That’s a Good Thing
The Wayback Machine reveals that the internet is frail and unsteady, like all human endeavors. And…
The Persistent Myth of Speed and ‘Productivity’
It’s not immoral to want relief from being too slow, scared, or fat, but speed could…
No Jack Dorsey, Twitter Fact-Checking Won’t Free Us From Our Baseless Convictions
Today is the day—finally—to stop being surprised that human beings espouse beliefs contrary to fact.