How did sports and music get so entangled? Prelude: Let's Get Ready To Rumble Let’s say you are an alien, perhaps even a Monstar: a creature sent to earth to steal the prowess of this planet’s athletes, just like your forebears leeching NBA talent in order
Is this what power feels like? Inside the Zohran Mamdani Election Night Party The wild diversity of New York packed into Zohran Mamdani’s election night party, but as I walked the floor of the Brooklyn Paramount all of them started to sort into three kinds of people. The first
Falsifiable fearmongering and the Zohran Mamdani election. Maybe because they’re clergy so bad behavior takes on an fancier form, or because their worst conduct has played out in the shadow of the High Holidays, or because a Satmar sect in Williamsburg went so far as to say that “portraying
What if asking for help means you’re a worthless loser? Take it away, Malcolm: Gladwell: Malcolm Gladwell here. I recently recorded the first episode of Smart Talks with IBM, where I learned how AI agents are joining AI assistants as a major productivity tool. Let's start with
Ezra Klein and the mirages of losing I think any conversation between Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates is worth paying attention to, but one precisely during a moment of national crisis is likely a precious resource. I was particularly interested in listening to this latest conversation to help answer
But it doesn't have to be. We know we need a more affordable city. Perhaps we know this so deeply – see it in with every rent payment and every exorbitant expense – that we forget that what we’re paying so much for ought to be much, much better.
Hello to everyone – long time, no…one-way correspondence! Three topics for you today, let's get into it. Hard City/Soft City I’ve just returned from a few weeks in Europe and have a lot of thoughts I’ll be working through in the coming few weeks.
Who do we say we are? We say we are people of the book and we say we are a people of books. We say we are intellectuals and artists and actors, that we are doctors and lawyers and professors. We say if there are two of us there are
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A bunch of monkeys in a room of typewriters, given infinite time, eventually write Shakespeare: a bunch of humans in a bad democracy, given a few hundred years, eventually get rid of democracy.
Get me a 5-candidate slate and cross-endorsement, ASAP
But the way there requires a multitiude
The emergency is here -- but it also was and will be. And that's okay.
An open letter to the elders of the American Jewish community
"No Other Land" and the State of the Union
We have to know why there's been no opposition so that we can build the opposition
Four options for action under the weight of the world
Don't mistake a game for the world, when the world is the game
Pass me a can, or twelve, of that.
Understanding the international boundaries of empathy
The consequences of shifting right with the Rahm Emanuel playbook
