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A newsletter in which Nicole shares conversations and essays, explores the books she’s reading, discusses the craft of writing, and interacts with readers in an advice column focused on friendships, family relationships, and creative work and goal-setting. Preview.
A native Brooklynite ponders the many meanings of gentrification and what we lose in our relentless pursuit of "the American dream." Preview.
Peacefield by Tom Nichols is a newsletter from an international-affairs expert, former political staffer, and native son of Massachusetts who writes about America’s place in the world—and especially about the challenges at home and abroad to the survival of liberal democracy in the United States, along with contrary and often curmudgeonly takes about everything from public manners to classic rock. Preview.
Unsettled Territory is a journey through culture, law, history, literature, and politics. Making time for digression, diversion, subversion, and surprise, this voracious, impassioned, and eclectic intellectual is doing what she calls American rootwork: deep diving in order to find meaning in both the extraordinary and the mundane. Preview.
A curious person’s guide to the stories behind the stories, demystifying the potent but often misunderstood forces that shape our world, from religious faith to social-media technology to popular culture. Preview.
You live in interesting times. Galaxy Brain wants to help you navigate them. A newsletter about technology, media, politics … and big ideas. Preview.