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We're living through the last days of American OJ - savor it while you can! theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Wild, out-of-this-world story about dot com pioneer turned UFOlogist Joseph Firmage. He’s being sued by credulous investors in his anti-gravity startup - and biding his time in a Salt Lake County jail. Crazy yarn by Brent Crane bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Businessweek

DOGE is far from Silicon Valley's only DC play. Meet Jim O'Neill, Peter Thiel protégé, far-out biotech investor and RFK Jr's likely no. 2 at HHS, who according to one former HHS official is "in a unique position to have a lot of influence." theinformation.com/articles/as-do…

I profiled Parker Posey, the brilliant "indie queen" who long waited for Hollywood to wake up and say: “Wow, Parker Posey can play more than a contemporary New Yorker with a lot of problems.” Now she's on The White Lotus, playing a whole new archetype—the mother. Link in replies!

Smart piece by Rogé Karma: The labor market is frozen Graph 1. Hiring has declined steadily for years and, as a share of total employment, is at its lowest level since 2014 (when U3 was about 6%) Graph 2. The unemployment rate for recent college grads is now consistently higher

I found this week’s news that the richest 10% of Americans now do fully half of the country’s consumer spending really, really worrisome. So I called up the Moody’s economist who made the finding. Turns out, he does too: (gift link) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Universities went from last year's protests and speech conflicts to this year's threats of federal defunding. Leading this week's The New Yorker, my report from Harvard—the flagship of American higher education—as it struggles for both its soul and its life. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

I have an essay in this week's Bloomberg Weekend Edition about ticket stubs and memory and how the ways we catalog our own pasts have been changed by the internet. I'm really proud of it and I hope you'll read it. Gift link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

This piece by Megan Greenwell is the best piece on higher education I've ever read in a business trade publication, and puts @collegeboard in a light I wish everyone could see so they could understand. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

"Occam’s razor, the venerable philosophical principle that the truest explanation is likely to be the simplest, has been thrown away. We’re living in the age of Occam’s chain saw, when the preferred answer is the one that makes the loudest noise and generates the most debris."

Amazing correction on WaPo writeup of Graydon Carter's book party.

so excited to finally share the piece I've been reporting on the Irvine Company—the landlord that built the city of Irvine, California—and the highly secretive 92-year-old billionaire who runs it with johngitt, for Businessweek: bloomberg.com/features/2025-…

That time Saahil Desai rented a Cybertruck and drove around D.C. to see how people would react: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

This, from Nathan Heller, is one of the best distillations of magazine writing that I have ever seen:

"They’re hanging out, like something out of a movie.” cnn.com/2025/04/02/us/…

It's Grover Norquist vs. Steve Bannon as Republicans consider a tax hike on the wealthy. "This is not going to happen," Norquist told me. Bannon says the longtime anti-tax activist "is irrelevant. He doesn't move anything in this city." My new piece: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

This Simon van Zuylen-Wood profile of Alex Soros manages to be both highly entertaining and extremely important as a decoder of how the Democratic Party operates nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Gilroy portrays an all-too-human rebellion, but it's all in the service of the metaphysical triumph of good over evil in Lucas’s original films. In our world, no such triumph is coming. The Force won’t be with us; our short, desperate lives are all we have newrepublic.com/article/194191…

“It was the Flint, Michigan of toxic masculinity." Another delicious yarn from David Gauvey Herbert. esquire.com/sports/a644529…