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My favorite Substack right now is Gurwinder Bhogal's The Prism. I linked to a few recent pieces from it here already, but in case you missed those or want to revisit them, here they are again: Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things Intelligence is not rationality
Back when I was still teaching English online, my wife one day recorded a short video of me playing a conversation game with one of my students. The question that came up while she was recording was "What's your favorite movie?" Assuming you're not some kind of a weirdo who…
I haven't been able to get The Avett Brothers' “No Hard Feelings” very far out of my head since watching Rick Rubin listen to it on a podcast in April. But I don't particularly want to get it out of my head either. So I'm going to explore that song and its lyrics and the places…
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Good grief, friends. The words “woke” and “wokeness” came up in the news and across the Substacks that I read more over the past week than in any other week that I can recall. Pro-woke, anti-woke, bank-woke—what the fuck? As I mentioned the other day—when I, too,
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In the piece I published about wokeness over the weekend, I wrote that "the percentage of times I’ve published writing and not wanted to add or change…
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I’ve been a vocal critic of “wokeness” for long enough now to have watched it and its “anti-woke” opposition evolve and get worse over a period of…
As a few of you will know, I’ve been doing some soul-searching, trying to figure out whether or not it’s in anyone’s interest but my own to keep writing…
Searching for character in identity, two sides of illiberalism, and more
Things worth remembering, the excesses of "wokeness," and more
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Why smart people believe stupid things, and more
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Every time I see the videos that people make of themselves doing things, I get sad. The latest one I saw was a compilation of a bunch of people who'd…
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After pulling up the video of my favorite scene from Paris, Texas for my last post, the algorithm steered me to this video essay exploring some of the…
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