The world is what it is.

Men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

lovely seeing you @davidfurnish and what a pleasure meeting the Nobel Laureate for Literature, Sir Vidia Naipaul in London at Liberatum @liberatum @stmartinslane

A photo posted by Courtney Love Cobain (@courtneylove) on Mar 22, 2016 at 11:58pm PDT

Alex Shephard

Alex Shephard is senior editor of The New Republic, where he has covered politics and culture since 2015. His work has also appeared in New York, GQ, The Atlantic, The Nation, and other publications.