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10 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
New Substack: Decadence and Andreessen's Dilemma:
douthat.substack.com/p/decadence-an…
Previous Substack: Influential Intellectuals Revisited:
douthat.substack.com/p/influential-…
Future Substack posts may discuss Mare of Easttown, Shtisel, and maybe an interview with the author of "Mom Genes," which I am once again asking you to buy:
amazon.com/Mom-Genes-Scie…
If you subscribe you are guaranteed occasional content at least through the release of my next book, so don't hesitate.
douthat.substack.com

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8 Jun
This is a good piece except for the passing attempt to rehabilitate "Lost":
collider.com/indiana-jones-…
Actually I'm not sure if this is definitely saying that "Lost" shouldn't have been approached as a puzzle box instead of simply being "felt"; maybe the author just means that its deliberate puzzle-box design helped encourage the puzzle-box mentality: Image
But either way, if you analyze Raiders of the Lost Ark as a puzzle box you are being a philistine, but if you commit to a TV show that was *designed as a puzzle box*, you are within your rights to be angry when it doesn't have a solution to its puzzles.
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8 Jun
My Tuesday column: Are We Destined For a Crisis of Democracy in 2024?:
nytimes.com/2021/06/08/opi…
It's a sequel, of sorts, to my Sunday column: Three Paths to Containing Trump:
nytimes.com/2021/06/05/opi…
Let's see if I can respond to these objections, 1 tweet for 1 tweet:
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12 May
The world is not disenchanted:
firstthings.com/article/2021/0…
Not disenchanted:
Not disenchanted:
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3 May
My wife and her new book in the latest Opinion newsletter:
static.nytimes.com/email-content/…
Her essay in Sunday's paper:
nytimes.com/2021/05/01/opi…
The book itself, with six shopping days till Mother's Day:
amazon.com/Mom-Genes-Scie…
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27 Apr
My wife's terrific new book is out today. I am on social media, she wisely is not. Therefore in the style of a Bernie Sanders meme I am once again here asking you to buy it:
amazon.com/Mom-Genes-Scie…
If you need more inducement here is a positive review from someone who is not me:
wsj.com/articles/mom-g…
Here is an excerpt/adaptation:
smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…
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29 Mar
Short take on the Snyder Cut (longer take in the next NR): The new Justice League is effective on its own terms, but those terms are a step back from what Snyder was trying to do in Man of Steel (where it mostly worked) and Batman v. Superman (where it completely didn't).
For all the four-hour-ness and not-Marvel-ness, Justice League is much more of a conventional superhero movie than its predecessors, which were more interested in the terror and havoc Superman's arrival wreaked on *us*.
The setup in Batman v. Superman, especially - how do our leaders, our weirdos, our normies, our merely human heroes all relate to a demi-god - was genuinely original. Unfortunately the plotting was just terrible. And no less terrible in the director's cut, alas.
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