Amit Vaidya
20 Years of Me and the Word This month it's twenty years since I heard the word. August 2006. There's no way to mark an anniversary like that without it sounding like something, and I've noticed the...
Amit Vaidya
Me, Madonna and the kids who finally went outside Earlier this year a judge in India compared the country's unemployed young people to cockroaches. Somebody made a parody account out of the insult,...
Amit Vaidya
Why I watched the World Cup on Telemundo even though I don't speak Spanish. Seven services, seven islands, and no ferry running between them. I don't speak Spanish. I understand maybe a third of...
Amit Vaidya
How FIFA Made My Summer Work I've spent this tournament writing as an economist. The credibility problem, the halftime spectacle built for television, and the officiating calls that kept breaking one...
Amit Vaidya
Confessions II is a stellar dance record with healing threaded through its spine. It is also the case I have spent twenty-five years trying to make. Somewhere this week, the charts caught up to an...
Amit Vaidya
How GLP-1 broke music's most reliable story. The voice in the dark Press play on Land of the Living and for the first eleven seconds you are somewhere very late at night. A piano plays alone, working...