Culture

What we make and why it lasts. Taste as inheritance rather than as a team sport.

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01Culture·8 min

The ten most famous serial killers, ranked by the people who sold them

Fame in this genre does not track body count. It tracks packaging — the nickname, the costume, the designer who got hold of the material. Here are the ten in the order the culture actually keeps them, with the highest confirmed total finishing last.

02work·5 min

The things we still make

A culture that has stopped believing it can build large things will not be argued back into confidence. It has to see one finished.

03Culture·6 min

Against the permanent culture war

A tradition worth defending is one people want to join. Most of what is transmitted as defence is closer to a siege.

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