Finally getting to see the generous blurbs on an actual hardcover, beautifully produced by Farrar,Straus&Giroux. Thanks very much to DeLong🖖, Rick Perlstein, D Waldstreicher, and Annette Gordon-Reed.

Now there's an audio sample here: netgalley.com/catalog/book/3…

Just on the most superficial level, the fact that Blinken thinks his rock and roll thing is a good look shows that he's a total dope.

Tomorrow at noon, live, with Robert Sullivan.

(Failing to understand this is known technically as the Seeger Delusion.)

Reposting to show that I was on this Blinken thing in September.

Um, no.

Maybe stop worrying about the behavior of the youth and focus concerns on the behavior of the grownups.

Not a big Neil Young fan, but I find it creepy that the US Secretary of State has no clue about the music he's--for some reason--taken it upon himself to play, in public , as a way of expressing something he seems to think is of geopolitical and emotional importance.

In the context of debate over Biden's China tarriffs, I repost this (no paywall): williamhogeland.substack.com/p/joe-biden-al…

Part Two of 'Overthinking 'Jolene'' (a paying subscriber exclusive): williamhogeland.substack.com/p/way-overthin….

'It's complicated' doesn't mean 'there's no way anyone can understand this.' It means it takes a minute and isn't likely to get sorted out in the Twitter format.

Out today! DOUBLE EXPOSURE is a personal exploration of the American West and the work of one of America’s greatest photographers, Timothy O’Sullivan. bit.ly/3UsWcd7

No bigger fan than me, so believe me when I say that if the highlight of your life is having Seinfeld at your graduation, you're in deep trouble.

It's anachronistic to think there wasn't a hard left labor movement in 18th Century America. Also anti-drama and anti-emotion to think it: the US founding is the story of how people got together and broke up and won and lost. New origin story 5/28:
amazon.com/gp/aw/d/037416…

Some early readers of THE HAMILTON SCHEME have told me that in parts of the story they viscerally hate Hamilton, but then Madison comes off as such a sleaze they find themselves rooting for Hamilton. This I like. amazon.com/gp/aw/d/037416…

In that Bill Burr clip with Bill Maher, it's especially funny how, while Maher distracts himself patronizing him, Burr gets five steps ahead intellectually.

I don't like publishers and Amazon posting excerpts from my books, because I generally think people are looking for excuses to not read them. But I'm bummed there's not yet a posted excerpt from the audio version, because I fantasize that I *personally* can draw people in.