A hub for the work of the Internet's "King of Content" covering culture, politics, labor, and athletics with a perspective informed by decades of work in marketing, sales, and the rotted-out carcass of academia.
*The* key node of operations in the ongoing fight against attention-fracking. Read The Empty Cup, or remain a distracted scatter-brain, it's up to you!
Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)
Politics, culture, criticism, Ukraine and Russia, art, literature, war and poetic political gossip. The daybooks and adventures of an Eastern European-American aesthete, flâneur and dandy.
"The funniest philosopher on Substack" - Henry Oliver | "Sharp and witty, with great humor always underlain by an earnest desire to figure things out." - Justin Smith-Ruiu
News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.
explorations at the intersections of deep time, theology, the human past, and the fraught present
"The adaptations, the fusions /
the transmogrifications /
but always /
the inward continuities /
of the site /
of place"
Notes, insights and conversations on writing, music, art, philosophy and creativity from the founding editor of The New York Times philosophy series The Stone.
Tre cose principalmente troverete leggendo "Il piacere delle parole": parole di storia, di giornalismo e di sport. Prendetevi cura di voi, magari leggendo di tutto un po'. Claudio