Evan McMurry
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Senior Editor, Audience @TheAtlantic | Short fiction writer | Two chords is pushing it.
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Albert Brooks once got directions from a cow, turned down the lead role for the movie “Big,” and had a “brain explosion” performing in front of an audience of clowns. Adrienne LaFrance on the godfather of American comedy: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
.Gal Beckerman on PEN America: “Does it really make sense to jettison such an entity without first thinking through what its absence would mean, what a world without PEN, without a defense of expression ... would actually look like?” theatln.tc/toaqJcoY
JUST IN: PEN America has now canceled its annual World Voices festival, Gal Beckerman reports, after calling off its literary awards ceremony last week. Can the free-speech group survive? theatln.tc/3quY9Nis
cogent Charlie Warzel question: if TikTok's data-mining and discourse-shaping abilities are too potentially nefarious for an authoritarian government to control them......why should anyone be able to control them? theatln.tc/FJRUNzrZ
I spent the past two-and-a-half months profiling Mike Johnson for The Atlantic, chronicling his improbable rise to the speakership, his anachronistic approach to the job, and his uneasy detente with Trump: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
.Graeme Wood games out how Netanyahu could use the Iranian drone strike to jumpstart hostage negotiations, refresh regional alliances, reframe Israel's global standing, and potentially harness his country's far right. Will he do it? theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
“He used to walk around the cloakroom showing people porno of him and his latest girlfriend,” one former Republican lawmaker told Elaine Godfrey. “He’d show me a video, and I’d say, ‘That’s great, Matt.’ Like, what kind of a reaction do you want?”
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.Graeme Wood: “It is one thing to refuse to negotiate with extremists because they are extremists. It is another to refuse to negotiate with them because you are extreme too.” theatln.tc/5IdSSsuw