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Remembering István Bányai

Like his masterly

5 min readFeb 7, 2023

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Remembering István Bányai

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Every Day Is Christmas for CEOs

Yes, Virginia, once upon a time the heads of big corporations weren’t each paid tens or hundreds of millions a year

4 min readNov 29, 2021

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Doing Our Bit to Avoid A Civil War

Leave your bubble, get out in the U.S.A. — it’s too easy to fear and loathe people you encounter only second-hand, on screens

5 min readNov 20, 2021

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Hating Big Tech Can Unite America

In the 1970s everybody started hating government, which didn’t work out well. In the 2020s everybody has started hating Facebook: huzzah!

5 min readOct 31, 2021

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America Is Rich Enough To Make Every American a Winner

The U.S. economic system is a hellish Squid Game — why do we keep playing?

5 min readOct 13, 2021

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America Is Rich Enough To Make Every American a Winner

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Living in A Word Cloud

I wonder how many agender people with DMRD listen to Red and Anarchist black metal while eating Birthday Cake Pebbles?

6 min readSep 30, 2021

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Democrat-Blue Highways Through Red America: A Road-Trip Game

I wondered: Where could I drive for a whole day (or two) without passing through a single precinct won by Donald Trump in 2020?

7 min readSep 20, 2021

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Democrat-Blue Highways Through Red America: A Road-Trip Game

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Maybe You Don’t Want to Be In Business With Jared Kushner

He’s “re-entering the private sector” with his own financial firm — so as a public service, my own tale of doing a deal with him

20 min readAug 24, 2021

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Maybe You Don’t Want to Be In Business With Jared Kushner

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Ride Without Helmets, Don’t Get Vaccinated, Live Free and Die

Back when Americans didn’t complain about vaccines, motorcyclists had to wear helmets in 47 of 50 states

3 min readJul 29, 2021

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A Brief History of “Fuck” in The New York Times

Also fucked, fucking, fucker, motherfucker, and Airbnfuckingbs

4 min readJul 13, 2021

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Kurt Andersen

Kurt Andersen

Award-winning, bestselling author (Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century) and creator of media (Studio 360, Inside, SPY).

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