This is the latest in Colin Dickey’s The Canny Valley. To go to the column page, please click here. There’s nothing more disposable, more abject, more forgettable, than an Internet meme. They flash up in an instant, captivate instantly, but are inevitably fleeting, and after a few weeks they’re detritus, cast off, barely remembered. I’d wager, […]

This is the latest in Colin Dickey’s The Canny Valley. To go to the column page, please click here. Somewhere in the distant future, in the derelict remnant of a liberal arts college named the Martha Graham Academy, a feckless student named Jimmy turns out an academic dissertation on the self-help books of the twentieth century. […]

This is the latest in Colin Dickey’s The Canny Valley. To go to the column page, please click here. I began to think we were really reaching a crisis in prose writing about two months ago, when the Washington Post’s Paul Farhi reported that NPR had announced that they were toying with the idea of fact-checking […]