Readings

True Detective is Headed Somewhere, Isn’t It?

So, seven episodes of True Detective down, one to go. I don’t entirely know where we’ve been. I have no idea where we’re headed. I guess I know where I am right now, but that could be a lie.

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How Designers Are Failing People With Disabilities

The market is huge and about to get much bigger—so why have high-end design companies almost entirely ignored people with disabilities and demand for a next generation wheelchair?

What if the Universe is Really Against Us?

Physicists at MIT may or may not be considering the possibility that the universe is conspiring against their research. If that’s the case, literature—particularly literature in the face of totalitarianism—holds lessons on how to proceed.

The Hazlitt Offensive: Astra Taylor

Our trademark-pending, Hazlitt questionnaire.

From Hardcore to Oysters on the Lower East Side

Victim in Pain, the debut album by New York’s Agnostic Front, turns 30 this year. At just over 15 minutes, it’s the perfect product of a fraught time and perilous place—an essential document of a Lower East Side that is, for better or worse, unrecognizable today.