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Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved.

Mendelian genetics was branded a “whore of capitalism,” and geneticists were forced to renounce their views or lose their jobs....

https://zeldman.com/2026/07/11/stalin-decided-what-was-good-science-millions-starved/

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved. - links What happens when dictators choose political expediency over science?

The Secret

If I learned one thing in 25 years of running design and education companies, it’s that idealism isn’t a business strategy. If you wonder why my partners and I had to shut down organizations we and lots of you loved, refer to the previous sentence.

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - The Secret - business If I learned one thing in 25 years of running design and education companies, it’s that idealism isn’t a business strategy.

The End

ON THIS DAY in 1971, Pamela Courson found Doors frontman Jim Morrison dead in the bathtub of their Paris apartment....

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - The End - glamorous ON THIS DAY in 1971, Pamela Courson found Doors frontman Jim Morrison dead in the bathtub of their Paris apartment. The cause of death was heart failure. No autopsy was performed. Morrison was 27.

When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbing on different instruments and capturing the whole mess on a cassette recorder. Here’s what happened next.

https://zeldman.com/2026/06/17/underdubbed/

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - Underdubbed - glamorous When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbing on different instruments and capturing the whole mess on a cassette recorder.

Look back in anchor tags: a partial review of my site’s 31-year visual history before diving into the new design....

https://zeldman.com/2026/06/04/remembrance-of-zeldman-coms-past/

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - Remembrance of zeldman.coms past - Design Look back in anchor tags: a partial review of my site’s 31-year visual history before diving into the new design.

She’s the Boss.

She is not here to eat. She is here to ensure my compliance....

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - She’s the Boss. - glamorous She is not here to eat. She is here to ensure my compliance.