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Information wants to be unfree
Prediction markets and the recommodification of journalism.
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What if everybody argued at the same time?
AI's flawed experiment in deliberative democracy.
Jan 5
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The limits of giving it all away
On Lewis Hyde’s “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World."
Dec 28, 2025
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Dead dreams of the emperors
Reading Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian” in the age of Musk and Trump.
Dec 21, 2025
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Four big things I learned in 2025
Lessons about media and politics from one of America's weirdest years.
Dec 19, 2025
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An unsentimental education
Organizing the unaligned and their theories of inequality.
Dec 15, 2025
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My brilliant nemesis
Elena Ferrante and the reach of novelists in the 21st century.
Dec 7, 2025
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Joan Didion's "Democracy" and the cliches of political life
Don’t be boring. Unless you don’t want anything to change.
Nov 30, 2025
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Matt Pearce
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