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It’s political and it’s cultural: At some point in the last few years, a feeling has set in that the future is being foreclosed
Michelle Goldberg • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
equivocation.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Wherever her family went, she became the node that connected all wandering Americans worth knowing.
Hernan Diaz • Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
But on another scale, the decisions individuals make about their private lives, like a young girl’s demand that she be taken to school in defiance of prevailing cultural norms, also have surprising—and long-lasting—consequences.
Huma Abedin • Both/And: A Memoir
Times are changing for writers. There’s been a recent wave who’ve stopped contributing to outlets and moved to newsletters like this, such as myself. To give some insight into what’s happening, the following is a postmortem of my decade-long career writing nonfiction for well-known media outlets like The Atlantic or The Daily Beast.
Erik Hoel • Writing for outlets isn't worth it anymore
In a recent summing-up essay in Antinomy, Swiss observed