Thread by @ClaireBerlinski

So for those of you who missed it, this week we launched the Cosmopolitan Globalist. Follow us at @cosmo_globalist!

What's the Cosmopolitan Globalist, you may be asking?

Here's the answer:
claireberlinski.substack.com/p/introducing-…

The idea was borne of my endless lament that global news coverage has disappeared. If you've been following me for a while, you know what I have to say about this, but I finally decided to do something about it--and so did 68 of my friends.

Want to listen to one of our editorial meetings? Here's our first podcast. We got on a Zoom call to ask ourselves, “So, what makes a story for the Cosmopolitan Globalists different from any other?” claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-first-po…

(We also asked why Piero’s friend, a fully-qualified engineer, believes the earth is flat, and we adopted Vivek’s turtle as our mascot—all the way down.🐢🐢🐢)

Here's our first big story: my co-editor @VivekYKelkar--whose remit is Hawaii to the Urals--explores the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and what it means for the future of the Pacific: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/forget-it-ja…

The next day, even though we had decided the CG did not (and frankly could not) chase breaking news, the breaking news was so mesmerizing that we had to write about it, because we couldn't concentrate on anything else. So we wrote this:

The Hack: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-hack

(That piece will also introduce you to the legendary Cosmopolitan Globalist Style Guide.)

On the next day, we published a terrific piece by @NighswanderJon, in Vienna, which asked why Europe and the United States handled the pandemic so differently. claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-coronavi…

That was a trick question. They didn't handle it differently. They both failed. The widespread perception to the contrary is owed to what Freud termed "the narcissism of small differences."

On the next day, we received our first Letter to the Editor--and it was one terrific letter. From Adam Garfinkle. claireberlinski.substack.com/p/china-the-7t… We published it, along with @VivekYKelkar's reply. And soon we'll have a podcast, with Adam, discussing it.

Yesterday, to conclude launch week, we chortled at @navalny's amazing caper--the best story we've heard or read this century. claireberlinski.substack.com/p/launch-week-… If you haven't heard it, don't deprive yourself.

And on the seventh day, we ended the work which we had done, and we rested on the seventh day from all our work which we had done. Then we blessed the Cosmopolitan Globalist and and we sanctified it by tweeting about it.

Have you signed up for @cosmo_globalist? You really should. Signing up is absolutely free.

"Free? But how can you possibly afford to give this away, Claire?"

We can't! That's why we hope you'll subscribe:

claireberlinski.substack.com/subscribe?utm_….

"I see. What do I get if I subscribe?"

Well, among other things, more newsletters: We can't afford to do this unless lots of people subscribe. But in the future, you'll also get super-secret behind-the-paywall content--when we move to our dedicated website--and lots of other perks.

For example, once we've all got our new messenger RNA, we'll invite you to something terrific.

"Like what?"

Well, it won't be a cruise. (We've read our David Foster Wallace.)

But it will be something way more fun.

Maybe we'll all go to Burning Man together. Or whatever's cool when the pandemic is over; we guess it probably won't be Burning Man. There will definitely be perks for people who subscribe.

And there will be lots more writing, from around the world--exploring the world’s most interesting problems from a genuinely global perspective.

So please subscribe. And please share the Cosmopolitan Globalists with your friends:

claireberlinski.substack.com/subscribe?utm_…

And if you'd like to write for us, get in touch. We're still short on good writers in quite a few countries in East Asia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East.

Do you think Anglophone coverage of your country is preposterous verging on lunatic?

Or, indeed, altogether absent?

Do you think you can do better?

We probably agree.

Send me a DM. Let's see whether you've got the right stuff.

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