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Category Archives: Journalism
The Biggest Subversives In The MSM
The exiles left the building: Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Sullivan, Nellie Bowles, Jesse Singal, Paul Krugman. The figures worth watching stay inside and work the institution from within its credentialing logic. Your question is about the ones … Continue reading
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Mickey Kaus – The Partial Insider
Mickey Kaus was born into the system. His father, Otto Kaus, sat on the California Supreme Court. He grew up in Beverly Hills, attended Harvard twice, and entered journalism through the Washington Monthly, the neoliberal incubator that launched Michael Kinsley … Continue reading
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David Horovitz: Journalist, Editor, and Interpreter of Israel to the World
David Horovitz was born in London on August 12, 1962, to a Jewish family with roots deep in European religious life. His great-grandfather was Rabbi Márkus Horovitz, a prominent Orthodox rabbi in nineteenth-century Frankfurt. That lineage did not produce a … Continue reading
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Mark Halperin and the Architecture of Political Knowledge
Mark Halperin was born in 1965 in New York City into a family already positioned inside the architecture of American power. His father, Morton Halperin, served on the National Security Council under Nixon and Kissinger, moving at the level where … Continue reading
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Who Owns the Wound: The Mournful-Journalism Genre and the Market for Institutional Grief
The mournful-journalism genre is not typically deep reflection. It is a compressed end-of-career competition over the meaning of a dying tradition, conducted under time pressure, before an audience that rewards emotionally calibrated moral clarity, through institutional channels that select for … Continue reading
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Mark Oppenheimer & The Broker’s Wager
Mark Oppenheimer was born in 1974 into a secular Jewish home in Springfield, Massachusetts, a mid-sized New England city that gave him his first education in the textures of American pluralism. He grew up arguing. His memoir Wisenheimer records a … Continue reading
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Who Writes Jewish Narratives Without Permission?
In his book, Forgive for Good, Stanford psychology professor Fred Luskin recommends that we stop writing people up for our unenforceable tickets. While this ticketing practice is not generally conducive for our happiness, it usually feels good in the moment, … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Dan Turrentine Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full heterodox speed in Dan Turrentine’s home studio, The DC Huddle production room, his Substack inbox, and the group chats with co-hosts Rachael Bade and Sean Spicer right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of The Washington Post Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are working overtime in the Washington Post’s newsroom, the executive suites at 1301 K Street, the digital-strategy war room, and Jeff Bezos’s private briefings right now. With the industry-wide pressures of AI disruption, subscriber churn, polarization, … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of The Atlantic Magazine Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full long-form throttle in The Atlantic’s Washington and New York editorial offices, the virtual story meetings, and the subscriber-retention dashboards right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign in its second month, Khamenei martyred, nuclear … Continue reading
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