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Trump taps podcaster David Sacks as AI and crypto czar

President-elect Donald Trump late Thursday announced that podcaster and tech investor David O. Sacks will be his new White House AI and Crypto czar, a newly-created position.

Outgoing DNC chair rejects notion that Democrats must abandon ‘identity politics’

Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison delivered a steadfast defense of his party's commitment to racial equity Thursday, drawing on his own identity as a Black man to push back forcefully against critics who say Democrats need to abandon "identity politics."

Chicago teachers want to teach Israel a lesson, not teach students

How is the Chicago Teachers Union working to resurrect Chicago’s failing schools? Is it allowing parents more freedom to move their children out of failing schools, or holding underperforming schools and teachers accountable? No? It’s voting on an arms embargo against Israel? Sure, I guess that will help little Timmy reach proficiency in math and […]

Apparently some religious bigotry is OK

Imagine the media firestorm if students at a Liberty University football game chanted, “F–k the Muslim,” at a Muslim player on the other team or if students at a Baylor University football game chanted, “F–k the Jew,” at a Jewish player on the other team. There would be a national media outrage condemning the school […]

Chilling at college

In the autumn I started classes at the Princeton Theological Seminary. It’s a late-in-life transition from my work as a television writer and producer to graduate student in theology. At some point, if I’m diligent in my studies, I may become an ordained Episcopal priest and a television writer and producer, which will allow me […]

Adapting troubled history: Review of Say Nothing on Hulu

In 2018 the journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, a writer at the New Yorker who is particularly adept at using true crime as a vehicle for probing intellectual questions, published Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. The book looked at the ripple effects of a notorious, decades-old crime: the 1972 […]

The Didion vibes economy

At one point, Joan Didion was a writer, known for her books and essays, which people read and liked — or didn’t. There was The White Album, which everyone read, and A Year of Magical Thinking, which everyone bought, and an assorted many other titles that everybody claimed to know but probably didn’t. At her […]

The myth of Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has long been regarded as a true master of German literature. While few anglophone readers today are familiar with Goethe’s entire body of work, its influence, especially Faust, echoes in modern books, movies, classical and contemporary music, opera, and more. His first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, was one of […]

A new purpose in a new service

Soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Guardians are all service members. We may focus on them storming a beach or driving a tank or soaring the skies in a jet, but regardless of what they do, they’re all said to be “in the service.” I recently spoke with retired Army 1st Sgt. Travis Baker, asking about […]

New York’s finest: Review of A Town Without Time by Gay Talese

“New York is a city of things unnoticed,” declares Gay Talese at the beginning of A Town Without Time, the new collection of his journalistic work centered on New York. New Jersey-born Gay Talese made a brand-new start of it in New York in the early 1950s. After a stint as a copy boy for […]

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