At small enough airports, they don’t make you agree to terms and conditions to use the WiFi, so you can watch porn at the gate on full volume and nobody can stop you.
We are pleased to announce the launch of Rubicon, a new quarterly of books and ideas.
Every journal makes a wager about what its readers can bear: how much difficulty, how much dissent, and how much of the past. Our wager is that they can bear quite a lot. Elsewhere, opinion arrives without argumentation and the facts of history arrive flattened into whatever narrative is needed by present expediencies. We are betting on the alternative: that a reader will follow an essay of six thousand words if the thinking is honest, and that ideas outside the current consensus deserve the same attention as those inside it.
Rubicon exists because the essay-review—long-form, argued, unhurried—has become an endangered form of thought. Our inaugural issue attempts to reinvigorate that tradition by bringing together eight essay-reviews spanning left-wing political violence, Cold War diplomacy, civil rights law, fin-de-siècle Vienna, Hollywood’s rise and fall, the ideological ferment of interwar Italy and France, and generative anthropology.
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Everything they taught you about July 4th, 1776 is a lie.
The Redcoats weren't soldiers. They were something else.
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I honestly believe that 69 degrees is the optimal indoor temperature, but it’s so cringe if people think you’re making a 69 joke so I just recommend 68
New York: it's hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool.
Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you're not using, and unplug what you can.
Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings, dimming/turning off our lights during peak electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same, and powering down non-essential equipment.
A stable grid means the AC stays on, and lives are saved. Let's ease demand — and get through the heat — together.