Subscribe now and you won’t miss tomorrow’s episode, which posts at midnight. It’s a good one. Unstoppable ⁦@PaulRudnickNY⁩ talks to me about Broadway’s time in the dark. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thi…
He’s sublime!

And then from Trumpcast there is @katecjames as superproducer Paige Flake.
She too is sublime!

In this one, I tip the show’s hand a bit more. We’re up to some excellently strange stuff at @ThisCriticalPod.
For example, in a crass bid to appeal to fans of the 19th-century English cultural critic Matthew Arnold, I refer to Matthew Arnold.

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30 Sep
So you want to start a campaign of persuading people, one human at a time, to get vaccinated.

Here are some tips.
First, see yourself as a missionary — but for something you firmly and whole-heartedly believe has improved your life and the lives of others, so not religion.
Second, the mindset is NOT “I am good and you are bad” or “I am right and you are wrong.”

That is not sales. THIS is sales.

The attitude is “I did this easy weirdly fun thing that made me happy, healthy, beautiful and free, and I would love for you to join me!! 🌈 “
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29 Sep
Reading Woodward what comes through now is how singularly uneventful, fair, and by-the-book democratic the 2020 presidential election was. if one candidate hadn’t been bleating about his delusions & riling up Nazi militias it would have almost forgettable.
Biden takes his time announcing and makes mistakes. Sanders can’t draw Black voters. Harris, Warren, Klobuchar and Buttigieg bring good ideas. Clyburn goes Biden. Biden beats a loathed impeached incumbent.
There’s a quadrennial plodding American set piece going on on the main stage and then over there is a psychopath screaming about bugs on his arm to an adoring but small bog.
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27 Sep
So many hot tossing 4ams I told myself that if we ever got Trump out and ever had a vaccine I would not be like one of those gloomy lottery winners and NOT be happy. I have more or less stuck to that.

77% of adults have now had at least one shot.
Please today tell the terrified you of last September that it—some of it—is really, really gonna be OK.
When you're hating the anti-vaxers and Joe Manchin really remember how much worse it could have been.
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22 Sep
Thank you, @lauraofrohan.

I would read a book called, “Mathematicians Explain What They Love About Primes.”
I have 8s in my handle and have always liked 8 because it’s a hail-fellow merry Falstaff kind of letter. Welcomes everyone. Where the 7s stand back and are captivating but I don’t have a chance of being friends with them — like mathematicians?
Maybe the US needs 53 states to make a real go of it.
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21 Sep
Seems at least possible that the opinion page as a conceit has exposed itself as a finite game with only two strikeable positions, currently known as “woke” and “anti-woke.”
I know what side I am on, and what gambits I played for 5 years @latimesopinion.

But it would be excellent to see not compromise or centrism but some…poststructuralism on all them pages.
Or Sharks/Jets, around and around in an endless loop. Either!
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19 Sep
Here’s what we talk about: nothing where there are sides.

Real ideas have no sides.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thi…
If politics is downstream from culture, we drink from upstream.
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