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The Newspaper Flourishing Without a Paywall March 31, 2025
There was a time in media when having a billionaire owner was an asset. For many outlets, this is still the case, particularly those publishing super-secretive group chats of powerful government officials who seem eager to trample on the rights of th...
The Fated Family March 21, 2025
I first learned of Sophie Madeline Dess’s work when a friend sent me her story “Unfathomably Deep,” then just published in The Drift. It was sent without comment, though with the implication, I think, that here was something striking and original, th...
The Artificial Culture March 06, 2025
I'll start with a simple premise. If we now have direct evidence that the federal government was funneling millions of dollars into supposedly free market press organs (such as Politico, which has received federal subscription payments from agencies ...
Gene Hackman’s Forgotten Classic March 03, 2025
Gene Hackman’s grandfather and uncle were small-town newspaper reporters. The abusive father who abandoned Hackman when he was just 13 operated a daily’s printing press. Hackman himself dabbled in journalism school.So it figures that he would have be...
Fleet Street Is Colonizing the American Newsroom June 12, 2024
While the US newsroom has been in steady decline for decades, the past year has been particularly rough. In January, 528 journalists were sacked; more than 100 employees were let go from the Los Angeles Times alone. Less than one year after its launc...
A Veteran Teacher’s Audacious Plan for Staving Off American Decline June 03, 2024
The following essay is adapted from the recently released book LESSONS IN LIBERTY: Thirty Rules for Living from Ten Extraordinary Americans (HarperCollins) by Jeremy S. Adams Decades and centuries in the future, historians will look back at our pecu...
Digital Thirst and the Sad End of Print Journalism March 16, 2023
Around the time I was promoted to editor-in-chief of one of America’s oldest newspapers, an executive wheeled a dumpster into the newsroom and told us to throw out the stacks of papers on our desks.The top brass was dressing up the company for sale. ...
Degas and Manet’s Friendship Chronicled in New Show March 13, 2023
One of the most curious of all Edgar Degas’s paintings depicts his friend and fellow French artist Édouard Manet, sitting idiosyncratically on a sofa. Such was the accuracy with which Degas caught Manet’s pose that the writer George Moore would sugge...
The F-Word, Once Again March 10, 2023
Someone once said that semiotics explained something everyone knows in a language nobody understands. Something similar might be said of Kuklick’s book: It is patently obvious that in day-to-day politics and pop culture that the term fascism has a ve...
The Martyring of Scott Adams March 03, 2023
As ridiculous a line of debate as this is, it has dominated the discourse about the recent cancellation (ah, or is it?) of Dilbert creator, Scott Adams, after he made comments during a YouTube livestream that were widely derided as a “racist rant”. C...
An American's Diary of the German Literary Scene March 02, 2023
The Literaturhaus Zürich occupies a six-story neo-Renaissance building in the old city center, a short walk from the main station. It is a gathering place for readers and writers, many of them international, an institution at once imbricated in the l...
