Have you tried to sell a diamond?, The Atlantic (1982) <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond/304575/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...</a>
War Is A Racket (1935): <a href="http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html</a>
How Do People Get New Ideas? (1959) [<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531911/isaac-asimov-asks-how-do-people-get-new-ideas/" rel="nofollow">http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531911/isaac-asimov-ask...</a>]<p>Its hard to believe, someone was able to think something so relevant today, more than five decades back.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964): <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/" rel="nofollow">http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-ame...</a>
Why Men Love War, Esquire (1984) <a href="http://public.wsu.edu/~hughesc/why_men_love_war.htm" rel="nofollow">http://public.wsu.edu/~hughesc/why_men_love_war.htm</a>
The Economics of the Colonial Cringe, The Atlantic (1991) <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/1991/10/-quot-the-economics-of-the-colonial-cringe-quot-about-the-economist-magazine-washington-post-1991/7415/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/1991/10/-quot-...</a>
Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite?, New York Times (1984) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddi...</a>
M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop, New York Times (2010) <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/magazine/30mia-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/magazine/30mia-t.html?page...</a>
The Duke In His Domain, New Yorker (1957) <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/11/09/the-duke-in-his-domain" rel="nofollow">http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/11/09/the-duke-in-his...</a>
"1,000 True Fans" by Kevin Kelly.<p><a href="http://kk.org/thetechnium/2008/03/1000-true-fans/" rel="nofollow">http://kk.org/thetechnium/2008/03/1000-true-fans/</a>
The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved, Scanlan's Monthly (1970) <a href="http://brianb.freeshell.org/a/kddd.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://brianb.freeshell.org/a/kddd.pdf</a>
They write the right stuff : <a href="http://m.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff" rel="nofollow">http://m.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff</a>
I don't have a link, but I once saw a circa-1900 cartoon that depicted a city covered in advertisements. On the side of a building one read "We'll advertise anywhere - churches our specialty!"