The Facebook Friend in the Plastic Bubble
Are we filtering ourselves to death?
Popular Culture
A Jewish Case for Mel Gibson
If Roman Polanski and Sean Penn can find work in Hollywood, why not Mel?
Are We Not Supergods?
Comic book writer Grant Morrison's psychedelic history of the medium and its heroes
Bollywood vs. Jihad
Which is the bigger threat to fundamentalist Islam: the Pentagon or Mumbai?
The Eternal Fallout Shelter
We're still living in the wake left by Cold War civil defense hysteria.
The Spook Racket
Magicians Todd Robbins and Teller take on the supposedly supernatural in their bloody off-Broadway sensation Play Dead
Briefly Noted Books, Movies, Television, and More
Privacy chic, outlaw bikers, William Gibson's Zero History, an unwitting libertarian documentary, and TV Carnage
Culture Shock
How joy buzzers, trick chairs, and other prank devices helped manufacture the post-industrial American male
