“Maybe AI will never be able to answer our deepest questions. But that’s not what AI evangelists want from it. It would be enough for it to ponder these questions on our behalf; then, neither governed nor free, we would never have to ask them at all.” bostonreview.net/articles/neith…

I’ve been on assignment all NFL season to write this long piece about Aaron, manhood, and our nation. This piece is about knowledge, confusion, and conspiracy as middle age comes on. So grateful to Jon Baskin and James Duesterberg as always -

Rereading this essay from maybe: leif weatherby in The Point Magazine, it's simply phenomenal. An earnest, nuanced, and revealing analysis of America, men, health, and bodies, with a point to make, but not an axe to grind. Go read it! thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

this by maybe: leif weatherby is the best essay--on sports, masculinity, america, whatever--that I have read this year by a considerable margin thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

This uses Aaron Rodgers to capture an entire era. Absolutely brilliant.

For The Point Magazine I wrote about Adrien Brody’s beautiful and enticing visage and how it advances The Brutalist’s politically suspect ends: thepointmag.com/criticism/outw…

hyperreal-politik

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For The Point Magazine I reviewed Andrew Lipstein’s Something Rotten and wrote about the problem of masculinity in literary fiction

we did it fam

Reverse hyperstition

I wrote about the Charlie Kirk gore video

CCRU does not, has not, and will never exist.