Two Paths (?) for the American Jew
David Sugarman and the excluded middle of American Jewry
Eminent Americans
A newsletter and podcast about the contemporary American intellectual scene.
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This Is What Victory Looks Like
Woke 1.0, -> Backlash -> Frustratingly Imperfect Integration from People Like Ezra Klein -> ??
Ballad of the Wild Ken
Writer and wanderer Ken Ilgunas on the past, present, and future of the American wild.
The Sacred Dark Arts of the Snowflake Hermeneutical Brigade
Len Gutkin on the deep history of contemporary snowflake hermeneutics
Birth of the A(I)uthor
Computer scientist Tuhin Chakrabarty on training LLMs to emulate serious fiction
The Psychedelic I
Sheila Heti talks about her series of therapeutic trips.
The David Sessions Session
Porn, smart phones, social media, moral panics, and David and me.
Who Killed the American Man?
Jacob Siegel and I discuss his essay "The Disappearing American Man"
The Notorious R.O.D.
Damon Linker and I deconstruct Rod Dreher
Turning Fexting into Connects-ing
Introducing Bodger, my first foray into app-making
Until the Dragon Comes
Science fiction fandom and the making of the twenty-first century