Josh Pitzalis

The regrettable consequence of justifying leisure only in terms of its usefulness for other things is that it begins to feel vaguely like a chore—in other words, like work in the worst sense of that word. Rest is permissible, but only for the purposes of recuperation for work, or perhaps for some other form of…

The class would meet every two weeks. Convicts would discuss literature alongside the judge who had sentenced them and their probation officers. Failures to show up to class or do the reading would count as parole violations. This was not your average book club. After half an hour of silent reading, the discussion began. It…

I was born in the late 80s, which means I grew up playing Starcraft. For those of you not born in the 80s Starcraft is a computer game where you’d build little armies and conquer the map. There were the future humans called Terrans. There were fancy hi-tech aliens with their spaceships and laser beams…

“The technological enthusiasm and hobbyism of today is strikingly similar to at the turn of the 19th century, and it has led a comparable degree of willful blindness about the risks. In 1903, the managers of a big New York dynamite manufacturing company begged publicly to The New York Times for new laws to abide…