Why You Shouldn't Use A.I. to Write A Professional Op-Ed, by Me, a Professional Op-Ed Writer Who Has Less Real Competition If You Do [Stanley Druckenmiller's WSJ op-ed, which he apparently wrote with A.I.--and Paul Gigot's defense of

Updates, new workshop schedule, and random thoughts Here in NYC, public school kids don't start their summer break till late June, and they go back the first week of September. When I was growing up in Alabama, we ended school at the beginning of May and started back

I wrote about J.D. Vance's new book for The Nation. Anyone who knows me knows I dislike politicians magically transforming into good ol' boys when it's politically advantageous. (Looking at you, DJT Jr.) Vance has some actual good ol' boy cred but he

I wrote a column for The Nation about the various billionaires who've been whining about Zohran Mamdani's teeny tiny tax increase on their multi-million dollar pied-a-terres and threatening to move to Florida. (Promises, promises.) The column is below. The Billionaires’ Bathos Club American

I wrote about Justin and Cerina Fairfax for Vanity Fair. I wrestled with this one for a while and it was hard to write for reasons you'll see in the column, but I hope it makes people think about these systemic problems that put women's lives

I regret to inform you that the Silicon Valley billionaires keep doing and saying dumb horrible things, and so I must continue to write about them. This week's ambulatory polar fleeced repository of hubris is Palantir's Alex Karp. Below is my column for The Nation about

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation. Here's the column: On Instagram, there’s an activist named Brian