Receive a shitload of oligarch cash to start an “independent” news firm. That’s public intellectualism in America.

Yeah, they sold it to Unilever like 20+ years ago. What’s your point, exactly?

512GB for the bargain price of $189?? Why are we shilling what we can download via torrent for free?

Great article. These guys have no idea what’s coming. Its one thing to be born poor and remain that way. Its quite another to have wealth and status and lose all of it. The counter-reaction is what I’m more afraid of- the kind of shit that produces a Stalin or a Mao.

Mods, please chill out, this isn’t reddit!

She’s a great writer! Couldn’t agree more that what we think of as “innovation”, really is theft and middleman insertion.