Cheapest Singer

The Singer Who Skewered America

Yascha Mounk | 28th July 2025

Nazis or lamenting World War III, Tom Lehrer’s political songs — all of which he placed in the public domain — were “laced with countercultural venom”. Despite his songs’ popularity, Lehrer had no interest in fame. “He could never get comfortable with the self-consciously politically engaged comedy which eventually took over big parts of American culture” (2,100 words)

Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone!

The Cheapest Unit Of The Uncanny

Ray Newman | Precast Reinforced Concrete Heart | 13th July 2025

Masks are the easiest effective way to play on humans’ instinctive fear of the other. Many slasher horror films like Halloween or Alice, Sweet Alice have relied on cheap, tacky masks to evoke a sense of the uncanny. Serial killers, both fictional and real, have used masks to terrorise their victims. “Masks are scary, among other reasons, because they deny us the cues we rely on to assess threats” (1,000 words)