White Pride in My Classroom – Salon Face-to-face with a white supremacist, a professor of English The Sky-High Club – The New Yorker There’s little evidence that high CEO pay leads to better company performance, but compensation packages keep rising. Dribbling Man – Grantland Richard Swanson launched a quixotic quest … Read More
Out in the Great Alone – Grantland The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race pits participants against the very ends of the world. In this multi-part Grantland story, one writer follows the deadly race from the air. Find What You Love and Let It Kill You – The Guardian James Rhodes … Read More
Ambrose Bierce’s ever-popular Devil’s Dictionary (responsible for witticisms like “lawyer: n, One skilled in circumvention of the law”) could use a good update, and the people at Grantland have stepped in for a potential sportswriting section. For example, courage (n.) — in sportswriting, two kinds of athletes are courageous: those who … Read More
Sun Myung Moon’s Lost Eco-utopia – Outside Magazine Before he died, the founder of the controversial Unification Church send a bunch of his followers into the jungles of Paraguay. Here’s how that worked out. Kill These Characters at your Own Risk – The New York Times Killing off a beloved … Read More
Carnival Triumph Cruise Ship Crisis ‘A Tale of Two Ships’ – LA Times Some passangers aboard the beleaguered cruise ship Carnival Triumph formed Bible studies and passed the time quietly. Others hoarded condiments and devolved into tribalism. It turns out that William Golding didn’t need to set Lord of the … Read More
