Roger Ailes: Don’t Trust Anyone

A story Ailes has told—“his Rosebud story,” according to Stephen Rosenfield, who worked with Ailes in the nineteen-seventies—is about a lesson he learned in his bedroom as a boy. His father, holding out his arms, told him to jump off the top bunk and then deliberately failed to catch him, saying, “Don’t ever trust anybody.”

Social Networks don’t bring us closer together

The truth is social networks are not delivering on their promise of bringing us closer together.

..I’m standing in line for 5 minutes—I scroll through my newsfeed. I’m lonely on a friday night—I look at pictures of an ex-girlfriend. The internet is too often like eating iceberg lettuce, filling my empty spaces without substance. Admittedly, this is mostly my fault. I’m a notification addict and Zuckerberg’s always got that new new. There is always more content to be consumed.

How Do E-Books Change the Reading Experience?

To call to mind a certain Toni Morrison book has as much to do with the care she took in crafting it as the physical sensation of reading it. Twenty-five years after I first read “Song of Solomon,” I still remember the exact location of a particularly devastating, gorgeous passage about the emotional violence inflicted by Macon Dead on his wife and daughters. (It was situated toward the beginning of the novel, at the bottom of a left-facing page.)