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Chuck Klosterman has walked into the darkness. As a boy, he related to the cultural figures who represented goodnessbut as an adult, he found himself unconsciously aligning with their enemies. This was not because he necessarily liked what they were doing it was because they were doing it on purpose and they were doing it better. They wanted to be evil. And what, exactly, was that supposed to mean When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying and why are we so obsessed with saying it How does the culture of deliberate malevolence operate In I Wear the Black Hat, Klosterman questions the modern understanding of villainy. What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli Why dont we see Bernhard Goetz the same way we see Batman Who is more worthy of our vitriolBill Clinton or Don Henley What was O.
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Chuck Klosterman is a New York Times bestselling author and a featured columnist for Esquire, a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, and has also written for Spin, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Believer, and ESPN.
