Articles of Interest

The philosophy club is back with a very special one: Voltaire's poem Man of The World.

Derek Guy and Avery discuss what it means to love this messed-up, materialist, consumerist world-- at least in the way that Voltaire does.

Special musical guest Avery Friedman

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How did used clothing lose its proverbial and literal stink?

An episode brought to you by The RealReal.

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The Philosophy club continues. This time, Derek Guy joins to talk about Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son. It's kind of a weird book!

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Fear of automation, trad wives, and America First movements. None of this is new: it all happened in the history of knitting and crochet.

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High heels are no longer as high as they were twelve years ago. What happened? An analysis of a trend.

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The Archie comic book characters became serious fashion icons, but it all happened through a series of accidents.

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The USA is a young country, but our fashion design is even younger. Like who are the titans of American fashion design? It’s Donna Karan, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren...these designers who are all still alive.

And if you want to look at where these titans of American fashion design got it all from, there was a great American fashion designer who many of them were looking towards.

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What role does fashion have in a time of crisis? This is one of my favorite stories I've ever made. But there have been some updates since it came out.

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This is one of the best pieces of fashion reporting I have ever heard: it's a reworked version of a story that originally aired on the NPR podcast Planet Money.

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A recording of an intimate conversation at Ludlow House, where the venerable Jad Abumrad asked me some questions about Gear.

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Almost all clothes have something to do with the military. But one industry in particular has a lot to do with the military.

The first episode of the new season establishes how the American military came to be, and how they were dressed. To see images and learn more, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com

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Zippers are the most common machine all around us. But it's a minor miracle how that came to be.

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Nate Dimeo is a longtime radio hero of mine. And praises be, now he has a book out of his stories, called The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of The Past. Enjoy this sampler of his audiobook and a favorite episode of mine.

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