This is great. Local news needs more leaders like Steve Grove

Universities have never possessed moral clarity. Knowledge creation requires rewarding dissent and epistemic modesty, qualities that are incompatible with institutional solidarity or real-time judgments about who is on “the right side of history.”

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my latest for The Atlantic in which I investigate a bewildering question: why is Pat McAfee so popular?

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Yesterday’s Connections used lingo from another NYT game THAT NOT EVERYONE PLAYS as one of its groups. Party foul!

Guess it wasn’t the Furiogarf cultural phenomenon they were hoping for apnews.com/article/furios…

“That single shot by Djokovic seemed to break something in Federer; he was different after that.” Sportswriting at its very best, by Scott Stossel theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Ivan Boesky RIP

The Strange Ritual of Commencement Speeches - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance, writing in The Atlantic in 2016 bit.ly/4bFYoUm

Watched WASHINGTON WEEK WITH THE ATLANTIC and learned about an archaic definition of the word “personality”

you really should be reading and following Matteo Wong theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

.Wendi C. Thomas has been a trailblazer and a role model. She’s a hero to so many of us. Can’t wait to see what she does next.

New: I'm launching a podcast!

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Very excited for this one. 'Good on paper' is a great concept, and Jerusalem is—in addition to being funny and insanely talented—a truly original thinker.
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Here's a link to the The Atlantic excerpt from Nellie Bowles great new book - it roared up to Number 1 with our readers. It's a gift.

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'The young woman wasn’t calling for a cease-fire or a binational confederation of Palestine and Israel. She was calling for war. Is that anti-Semitic?'

Judith Shulevitz parses the chants.

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!!!! Let’s go City Bureau. For the 2nd year in a row, a nonprofit local news org has won a Pulitzer in the local reporting category. A new generation of news outlets are filling the void and we are so proud! Congratulations to our partners City Bureau for your critical work!!

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Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine Boycotts The Crimson Over Allegations of Bias — such as quoting leaders by name. thecrimson.com/article/2024/5…