Journalism
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TRUT: The Star, The Globe, and the Missing H in the New Veracity
I wrote this essay for Emigre 41, The Magazine Issue (1997). It also appeared in my 2003 book, Economics. In this essay, I coined the word, “trut”.
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The Chicago Sun-Times, Today, Right Now, is a Great Newspaper, So Stop Whining About It
There’s a slow-moving, but consistently rolling, train of thought that says that the Chicago Sun-Times is dying/ is poorly run/ etc. There was a post to this effect last week, but we’ve all heard these things for years now. Expressing dismay about the Chicago Sun-Times is something of fun sport for the portion of the journalism…
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Evidence of Ascension in America, Even When Only Half of Us Are Looking
I listen to Fox News on my Sirius XM radio while driving to and fro from Winfield. I consider it something of an intelligence-gathering mission from the fact-based world, the one where we seek out the truth and take steps to understand it. I also seek to understand the roughly half of my country that…
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Roman Hyperlocal!
There is a construction project just to the south of our apartment here in Rome. There is also what appears to be a major archaeological wonder here as well. I started looking around to see what was going on, and stumbled onto some stuff. It is the Largo di Torre Argentina. This Facebook group has the info.…
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The Ballad of Tyler Hicks
Tyler Hicks is one of the best war photographers in history. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and worked with some of the best, including C. J. Chivers and Dexter Filkins, trying to explain a world gone mad. In March of last year, Hicks— along with colleagues Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario and Stephen Farrell— was…