From the proto-bleep to meta-bleep: how the US government protects us from the profane.

“By asking very simple questions, people have said the most astonishing things to me.”

How do we restore consensus in an age so divorced from fact?

Is a well-received work of William Faulkner scholarship a hoax?

Deep inside the world of Cartoon Network’s most popular show.

The rock critic’s lasting impact.

On the moral failure of über-wealthy do-gooders.

On why we need to stop questioning Wikipedia and start thinking about what comes next.

Text from the books and Foster Wallace’s corresponding annotations:

Along with all the Wittgenstein, Husserl and Borges, he read John Bradshaw, Willard Beecher, Neil Fiore, Andrew Weil, M. Scott Peck and Alice Miller. Carefully.