I especially like the “Freedom” framing in the new Vice President Kamala Harris ad because research shows it’s a very effective frame for arguing against a range of anti-woke censorship/repression. Really useful tool to have in the campaign toolbelt.

What is this, the 4th century?

Yessss Cassandra Good!

Every four years it becomes pretty funny to be married to a woman named Caroline Marks.

It's interesting to me that both Harris and Walz did the voiceover for their first ads themselves. Just so much better than an ominous baritone telling me to save democracy.

The 250th anniversary is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to revitalize Americans' relationship with history and civics. Are we up to the challenge? Help me and colleagues explore this question next year at SXSW! Voting ends August 18. panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/149700

4:45. Back from vacation, back to writing. 88k words in.

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Lots of changes to statuary hall in the past few years! Both Florida and Arkansas added statues of Black women civil rights leaders recently too. news.artnet.com/art-world/john…

New America 250 slogan just dropped

The responses to this article are a reminder that a big chunk of the public no longer believes journalism is about seeking truth or holding power to account. Instead they see the media as a kind of jack-in-the-box that is supposed to pop up and say “Trump is bad!” over and over.

Raygun the Australian breakdancer is surely someone’s dissertation advisor, and man, what a relief this must all be for that person’s defense.

I’ve always found the New Yorker’s insistence on using these diacritical marks pretentious, but nothing makes that argument more clearly than seeing an umlaut in “defensive coördinator” good god

Broke the 70,000 word mark on my book draft today! Probably 40,000 to go.

I read a lot of books while commuting last year, and this was definitely my favorite one.

Needing to explain, every day, to my 2 and 5 year old why I can be up at 5am and they can't really defeats the purpose of waking up at this hour.

Any time I’m not working on my book GW is somewhere scolding me, an ongoing series