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In Defense of Fuzzies
There are two kinds of security, wrote David Graeber and David Wengrow in The Dawn of Everything. “There is the security of knowing one has a…
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From my father: Are we getting it wrong on prostate cancer screening?
Last week, my father published this article in the Valley News, the paper of the Upper Connecticut River Valley, where I grew up. The Valley News is the…
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Larry Summers Honeypotted Me
How a hacker weaponized flattery and took over my Twitter account.
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Deconstructing the Op-Ed
In a recent op-ed in The New York Times about the greedy, miserly rich, a cliché appeared that I should have let roll off me, like water off a duck’s…
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The Administration IS Secretly Socialist
Keep Telling Yourself They’re Old and Annoying; Biden and Buttigieg Are Just Solid Labor
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Ozempic is a Bomb
Earlier this year, I got to be on a Brooklyn-local fitness podcast, the Busy Body Podcast, talking with my friend Cadence Dubus about the O-word. (Ugh…
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The Problem with Women
The other day a friend asked me what I thought of someone he was thinking of hiring. I’d worked briefly with this guy, whom I’ll call P, and—unusually…
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Magic + Loss
Magic + Loss
Tech and politics for English majors.
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