The Modern Man’s 7 Best Weekend Reads

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

Old Men and the Grammys

No, the Grammys aren’t broken because [insert Chris Brown anything]. Complaining about the Grammys is perennial and inevitable, because the structure of the award giving, which is flawed, is also etched in stone: the representatives of yesteryear weighing in on the acts of today. The systemic issues in the Grammy … Read More

Volkswagen’s Controversial Ad Reshot

[youtube width=”640″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGSKQnMH4g[/youtube] Remember that Volkswagen commercial that people were saying was racist? Charles Blow of the New York Times called it “like blackface but with different voices” while the Wall Street Journal’s Jimmy Cliff noted that the ad’s entire shtick was centred around “the fact that the accent was coming … Read More

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