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Milli Vanilli, guitars, and the fight for humanity

Musicians faking it is a tale as old as Top of the Pops. But with AI generated music the crisis of authenticity is striking at the core of what it means…

Jul 3 • 

Andrew Potter

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May 2025

On the end of the world

How would you feel if the world was ending? What would you do with your last night on Earth? Who would you spend it with?

May 30 • 

Andrew Potter

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April 2025

1989 and all that, or, why history didn't end

The fall of communism was an exhilarating time, but even as the walls came down the seeds of the West's own contradictions were already being sown.

Apr 22 • 

Andrew Potter

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January 2025

Terry Fox and the idea of Canada

Terry Fox didn't just try to raise money for cancer, he gave Canadians a way of understanding themselves as a people not despite, but through, their…

Jan 21 • 

Andrew Potter

63

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December 2024

Second annual last minute Gen X Christmas gift guide!

It's late, but chillax! There's still time to pick up some fresh bling for your homies.

Dec 20, 2024 • 

Andrew Potter

14

The AInguish of Influence

Creators have always had a tense relationship with their influences, but generative AI threatens not just the meaning of art, but the very nature of the…

Dec 8, 2024 • 

Andrew Potter

12

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November 2024

Is nostalgia killing childhood?

Childlore is one of the great cultural inheritances of humanity, and one of the most enduring. But it's a fragile ecosystem, and whether it can survive…

Nov 21, 2024 • 

Andrew Potter

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July 2024

Why is Gen X so reactionary?

The truth about how we went from Generation MTV to Generation GOP is less about selling out, and more about the relentless power of nostalgia.

Jul 17, 2024 • 

Andrew Potter

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The truth about latchkey kids

Gen Xers like to boast about being left unsupervised after school. But there was a grim side to it that has left many determined not to repeat the sins…

Jul 8, 2024 • 

Andrew Potter

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June 2024

Spy vs Everyone (but especially Donald Trump)

The most influential magazine of this century stopped publishing in 1998, but its legacy is both invisible and everywhere, from Twitter to the American…

Jun 19, 2024 • 

Andrew Potter

21

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This is your brain on peer pressure

The one thing that unites parents from the 1980s and those trying to raise today's digital natives, it's a deep-rooted fear of what the kids get up to…

Jun 3, 2024 • 

Andrew Potter

27

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May 2024

How Apple totally lost the plot

The new ad showing the destruction of analog culture to sell iPads is an amazing failure to read the room by a company that used to know better.

May 9, 2024 • 

Andrew Potter

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