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How Vice Lost the Future March 01, 2024

When I first started working for Vice, back in 2012, telling somebody you worked there was an exciting revelation, loaded with kudos and intrigue. It was akin to saying you worked for Fiorucci in 1977 or Death Row Records in 1994 – a company that ope...

Virtue and Vice in an Age of Addiction July 22, 2019

It's been a long day, and you would like something to look forward to. It's there, waiting for you, easy to get when you're tired, feeling down, or merely bored, and though you sometimes worry that it may be a larger part of your life than it ought t...

The Untimely Death of Vice September 28, 2011

THE NAMELESS NARRATOR of Lawrence Douglas’ new novel seems cut out to be the butt of an academic satire. Like so many fictional professors before him—in books by David Lodge, Michael Chabon, Philip Roth, and others—he is a middling writer turned relu...

More Vice Than Virtue: Dick Cheney's Memoir September 15, 2011

NEAR the end of his eight-year stint in office, Dick Cheney was asked if he had any advice for the incoming staff of Barack Obama. â??Make sure youâ??ve got the vice-president under control,â? he replied. Although he meant it as a joke, the laugh...