Mark Zuckerberg famously said that the Twitter founders drove a clown car into a gold mine. Now it looks like he’s driving a Lamborghini into a garbage dump.
David Stromberg on Israel: “It is really an age-old question: When things turn dark in your country, do you resist from within or go into exile?”
Here I am on David Hume’s Guide to Social Media.
Here’s another one of my little experiments in sharing ideas: Paul Kingsworth recently published an essay and I annotated it.
I think if I could use only one recording to demonstrate how good vinyl can be, it would be this one. Spacious, rich, perfectly balanced.
Currently reading: Reporting World War II: Library of America 📚
“A Humanism of the Abyss” — my essay on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Oliver Sacks’ Awakenings — is unpaywalled.