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The "Is College Worth It?" Conversation Doesn't Mean Much Without a Sense of What Teenagers Will Do Instead
There’s a debate going on currently regarding a significant decline in faith in whether college is worth the costs, particularly among young people…
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Trauma is Indeed Like a Car Crash
in that most people get over it
Oct 2
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I Don't See How "Player Empowerment" in the NBA is Sustainable
why on earth would a kid in Indiana become a Pacers fan?
Sep 28
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Subscriber Writing, September 2023
Here’s a set of links to subscriber writing for the month of September 2023, which I called for a couple weeks ago. They are presented, as always, in…
Sep 27
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I'm Telling You, Save Yourself from the Irony Cult, Save Yourself
David Leonhardt has a great writeup of Elites for the NYT today. I was very sad to hear the news that Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House had suffered a…
Sep 26
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I'm Telling You, Save Yourself from the Irony Cult, Save Yourself
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I'm Confused by Sam Tanenhaus, But There's Nothing Confusing About Why I Shared Information About My Substack Deal
none of this will be addressed, because the Times is the Times
Sep 24
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I'm Confused by Sam Tanenhaus, But There's Nothing Confusing About Why I Shared Information About My Substack Deal
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I'm Looking for More Ghostwriting Work
Hey everyone - lacking a better way to go about doing this, I’m putting it out into the universe that I have some experience as a ghostwriter and would…
Sep 23
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Review: Chasing the Intact Mind, by Amy Lutz
a brilliant, tragic book
Sep 22
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The Stations of the Meritocrat Cross
I thought that this Atlantic piece by a current Yale undergraduate (likely paywalled, but I dunno) was pretty good. While it’s a little overwritten, the…
Sep 20
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Aging White Men, Like Everyone, Are Aware of the Discursive Reality in Which They Live
every 40-year-old white dad I know won't shut the fuck up about Kendrick Lamar
Sep 18
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Editors, I Love You, But Nobody is Pitching the Way That You Say They Should
Inside baseball today. Sorry. I’d like to take a moment and say that maybe the most commonly expressed rule for pitching as a freelance writer, that you…
Sep 12
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"Was the Past Better Than Now?" is, Unsurprisingly, Not a Coherent Question
sometimes, I suspect that human existence is multivariate
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