Articles: 125
28 Jul 2025, 12:00
Culture
what is the purpose of an open mind that's never forced to come into contact with ideas it might not like?
27 Jul 2025, 14:01
I'm in Persuasion talking about the irrationality of stranger danger fears, and I was in The Times of London this past week writing about Zohran Mamdani. Please check them both out.
24 Jul 2025, 14:16
actually putting students first means giving them what they need, not what you think they want
22 Jul 2025, 20:00
Hello folks!
21 Jul 2025, 12:03
for what? for whom?
20 Jul 2025, 16:33
return of the gunslinger, I guess
18 Jul 2025, 12:03
If you were one of the twenty subscribers who received a free galley of The Mind Reels, please read it!
16 Jul 2025, 12:02
no conspiracies, no spy agencies, no mysterious billionaires, no private islands, no predatory celebrities, no blackmail - just ordinary human devastation
14 Jul 2025, 20:01
plus call for July subscriber writing!
13 Jul 2025, 00:00
it doesn't fit the agenda
11 Jul 2025, 14:01
This is the second in a limited series of unknown scope, titled Writing Today, intended to talk about the world of writing as a profession with more specificity and care than tends to be found in these discussions. The first post is available here.
09 Jul 2025, 12:03
the "vibe shift" is a great opportunity to stop being afraid all the time
07 Jul 2025, 12:01
what is cynicism, really?
03 Jul 2025, 12:02
I quite like the Check the Mic podcast with Steve Palazzolo and Sam Monson, formerly of Pro Football Focus and now associated with the 33rd Team.
02 Jul 2025, 12:02
it's time to stop pretending that political parties control the narrative
30 Jun 2025, 12:02
one man's idiosyncratic view
25 Jun 2025, 12:03
automating everything in order to spend more time watching our own brains turned to porridge by algorithms
23 Jun 2025, 12:04
I grew up in a political milieu that was interesting, to say the least, and it imparted many lessons about how American politics really works that I could not have learned in any other way.
19 Jun 2025, 13:30
fast, slow, who cares, I want my dark magic
16 Jun 2025, 20:01
think of the #content potential guys
13 Jun 2025, 18:04
at some point, you have to answer questions posed by someone other than your dues-paying fans
10 Jun 2025, 17:23
and why you can't "just build" without confronting corporations or the wealthy
08 Jun 2025, 15:22
until he tries, you know, actual contrition
06 Jun 2025, 12:03
their place in our culture, and their stock price, requires them to have something more profound than technology that works: they need a story to tell
04 Jun 2025, 14:31
on a cool, breezy morning....
02 Jun 2025, 12:03
YIMBYism is all internal contradictions
28 May 2025, 12:02
against the monstering of everything
23 May 2025, 12:03
it mostly depends, I'm afraid, on who you are
21 May 2025, 21:15
mostly meta
19 May 2025, 12:03
"this isn't happening, also it's happening and it's good," part a billion
15 May 2025, 20:02
12 May 2025, 15:15
this is less dismissive than it sounds
