Sublime

obliviously enjoying your unearned privilege to being crushingly aware of

McInerney’s big job now is acting as a custodian for the statue of himself that celebrity has

A group of roughly 150 people or fewer seems to be an ideal community. It even has a name, Dunbar’s number, after British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who discovered it. As we evolved, groups of fewer than 150 people gave us enough resources to hunt, raise kids, share, and thrive. When our groups exceed the limit, things tend to get weird. Managing

He’s Sih Hsuin Ma now—his old self turned inside out, like a jaunty, reversible jacket.

fulcrum

As the contexts of bourgeois sociability shifted from community, family, and church to commercialized or privately improvised forms—the streets, the cafés, and resorts—the resulting consciousness of individualized freedom involved more and more estrangement from older ties, and those imaginative members of the middle class who accepted the norms of

He conducts an ongoing interrogation about what it all means. What’s black culture? What’s hip-hop? What are the responsibilities of a society and the people in it? And his inquiry isn’t bloodlessly academic, either; there’s something very consequential about his approach.