In Praise of Idleness
An argument for working less.
Great articles, every Saturday.
An argument for working less.
Bertrand Russell Harper's Oct 1932 20min Permalink
The author’s chance encounter with Tom Hanks leads to a dear and lasting friendship with his assistant.
Ann Patchett Harper's Dec 2020 1h20min Permalink
The perils of voting in the modern age.
Victoria Collier Harper's Nov 2012 15min Permalink
Wendy Carlos’s music of the spheres.
Will Stephenson Harper's Sep 2020 15min Permalink
In Minneapolis, a group of activists take over a Sheraton and open it to the homeless, banning police.
Wes Enzinna Harper's Sep 2020 Permalink
Giving birth as a black woman in America.
Naomi Jackson Harper's Aug 2020 25min Permalink
How the FBI manufactures phony crimes to arrest so-called terrorists.
Petra Bartosiewicz Harper's Aug 2011 30min Permalink
The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe.
ANNIE HYLTON Harper's Jul 2020 30min Permalink
Collective ownership gives power back to poor farmers.
Audrea Lim Harper's Jun 2020 20min Permalink
Wanders through the emptied post-American landscape.
Rebecca Solnit Harper's Jun 2007 Permalink
Apocalypse camp at the dawn of the Great Extinction.
Lauren Groff Harper's Feb 2020 25min Permalink
Rio de Janeiro drug gangs are embracing evangelical Christianity.
Alex Cuadros Harper's Jan 2020 30min Permalink
An archipelago off the African coast and its migration crisis.
Tommy Trenchard Harper's Dec 2019 30min Permalink
The dark world of online murder markets.
Brian Merchant Harper's Dec 2019 30min Permalink
How to tell a genderqueer story.
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich Harper's Nov 2019 25min Permalink
A journey to explore the rising authoritarianism in Hungary and its weirdest fringe: the people who believe they’ve descended from Attila the Hun.
Jacob Mikanowski Harper's Jul 2019 25min Permalink
Ideas on labor and capital have remained fixed while the means of production grow ever more alienating.
Marilynne Robinson Harper's May 2019 25min Permalink
A few miles north of San Francisco, off the coast of Sausalito, is Richardson Bay, a saltwater estuary where roughly one hundred people live out of sight from the world. Known as anchor-outs, they make their homes a quarter mile from the shore, on abandoned and unseaworthy vessels, doing their best, with little or no money, to survive.
The legacy of the Guatemelan adoption industry.
Rachel Nolan Harper's Mar 2019 30min Permalink
An unfinished civil war inspires a global delusion.
James Pogue Harper's Feb 2019 30min Permalink
Inside New York City’s task force on bias.
Kathy Dobie Harper's Dec 2018 30min Permalink
Can hospitals learn to better treat Deaf patients?
Katie Booth Harper's Aug 2018 20min Permalink
Glory, grief, and the race for the Triple Crown.
John Jeremiah Sullivan Harper's Oct 2002 1h Permalink
The author travels to Mexico to meet a retired assassin and kidnapper, now himself a target of the cartels that once employed him.
Charles Bowden Harper's Apr 2009 35min Permalink
“The echoing horror of slavery cuts both ways. We are often afraid to say what we know is true. The South is disaster and it is also miracle.”
Imani Perry Harper's Jul 2018 20min Permalink