Elliot David

There tend to be indicators. Clear pop-cultural forecasts of where we’re headed, elucidations of the potential future status quo that say, “it’ll probably end up like this, at least for a little while.” They can be inverted or invented, bent and spun to back up any side of an argument...

Growing up in Houston, Jim Parsons always wanted to be an actor. “My mother had these, I don’t know if they’re called memory books, or what, but every year of my life, there was a set of questions I had to answer,” Parsons tells me. “One of them was ‘What do you want to be when you grow up...