The Prophet of Paranoia
John McAfee created one of the first anti-virus programs. Then he traveled to Belize, where he lived with a harem of young women and a lot of guns. His neighbor was murdered under mysterious circumstances.
John McAfee created one of the first anti-virus programs. Then he traveled to Belize, where he lived with a harem of young women and a lot of guns. His neighbor was murdered under mysterious circumstances.
Stephen Rodrick Men's Journal Sep 2015 20min Permalink
A dispatch from the pandemic under Governor Kristi Noem.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Mar 2021 30min Permalink
How UFO culture took over America.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Aug 2020 40min Permalink
A profile of climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Mar 2020 15min Permalink
For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone May 2019 35min Permalink
How a Hollywood icon found himself at a dead end.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Jun 2018 40min Permalink
A profile of the Fox News anchor, who started his media career as a promising magazine writer.
Stephen Rodrick GQ Sep 2017 15min Permalink
On the road with the comic after a bitter divorce.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone May 2017 25min Permalink
The Vice President’s days in Indiana.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Jan 2017 25min Permalink
The best women’s tennis player of all-time opens up.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Jun 2013 20min Permalink
Life behind the Beatles curtain, with the man whose real name is actually Richard Starkey.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Apr 2015 25min Permalink
“The only problem is he was so successful that Hollywood decided to devour his Xanadu, with premium vodka parties and assistants scouring the Park City Albertsons for Fiji water. ‘It makes me fucking nuts,’ says Redford.”
Stephen Rodrick Men's Journal Nov 2013 25min Permalink
A son’s memory of the father he lost at 13, excerpted from The Magical Stranger.
Stephen Rodrick Men's Journal May 2013 30min Permalink
He was a hedge-funder with a coke problem. She liked to drink and was thrice-divorced before they got married. When the police arrived, she was clutching his dead body in the shallow end of their pool. She would soon be accused of murder—not by the cops, but her Internet psychic.
Stephen Rodrick New York Feb 2008 30min Permalink
Tales of mayhem on the set of The Canyons.
Stephen Rodrick New York Times Magazine Jan 2013 25min Permalink
He’s their hero, but he’s also their soulmate, the one person in the world who understands them. That’s why Stephen Wesley and the legions of fans like him can’t get enough of the Mountain Goats. And that burden is crushing Darnielle.
On the passionate relationship between fans and John Danielle of the Mountain Goats.
Stephen Rodrick New York Mar 2009 20min Permalink
A primer on Peretz, longtime owner/editor of The New Republic, committed Zionist, and author of the line “Muslim life is cheap.”