In 1974, Martin Scorsese was a year removed from his breakthrough film—the semi-autobiographical “Mean Streets,” about a young man in New York’s Little Italy neighborhood who is sinking into the quicksand of Mafia life—when he presented a companion p...
I want to show you some examples of an internet phenomenon that I have been unable to unsee. The phenomenon, as I see it, has a few steps: People would like others to be convinced to take up a certain ideology. They believe that if those others saw a...