

The Atlantic‘s Megan Garber and Conor Friedersdorf sit down to discuss the current billboard hit from Twenty One Pilots and it’s cultural implications for a generation steeped in Starbucks and smart phones. Conor Friedersdorf: Would you trade the ups-and-downs of adult life for a soothing lullaby in your childhood bedroom? That’s the comforting fantasy that…

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll While there is never quite any substitute for getting lost within an undiscovered destination for the very first time, a book can…

Approximately one hundred million years ago, I was in what humans generally refer to as “high school”. This is essentially a large building where old people tell young people what to think. They talk to you all day about stuff, then they tell you to read some parchments made from dead trees. Worse yet; you…

Anytime you leave your house, you see people walk down the street, transfixed with tiny devices in their hands. On school buses. Inside darkened subway tunnels. At restaurants, bars, libraries, coffee shops. Classrooms. Hospitals. Funeral Homes. Everywhere. And while I don’t count myself as a technophobe, it sometimes feels like a worrying trend. That people…