We Don't Realize How Hard

If Youre A Vegan Who Ran A Marathon & Got Your Dogs From A Shelter, How Do You Decide Which Thing To Wedge Into The Conversation First?

I Always Feel A Certain Sense Of Reverence In Libraries, Even Small City Ones That Smell Like Homeless Internet Users.

If I Start Outsourcing All My Navigation To A Little Talking Box In My Car, I'm Sort Of Screwed. I'm Going To Lose My Car In The Parking Lot Every Single Time.

I Would Read The Atlas For Pleasure. I Knew It Was Weird. It Was Weird.

Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, A Professor Of Political Science At Rutgers University, Has Argued That Geography Seems Less Relevant Than Ever In A World Where Nonstate Actors -- Malleable Entities Like Ethnicities, For Example -- Are As Powerful And Important As The Ones With Governments And Borders. Where On A Map Can You Point To Al-qaeda? Or Google, Or Wal-mart? Everywhere And Nowhere.