Category: Fellow Travelers

• Omar El Akkad on how to avoid American ruin

  It feels like America is tearing itself apart. The federal government is alternatively self-destructive or deadlocked. Filter bubbles enclose us in their comfortable but toxic embrace. Most Americans struggle to eke out a living even as corporate profits surge. Propagandists reverse engineer algorithms to deliver automated misinformation at scale. Outrage is the new normal. The…

• Fellow Travelers

  In which I talk to my favorite authors about craft, big ideas, and lessons learned. Culture is a single extended conversation about the meaning of life, and we wander its forking paths in search of insight, however fleeting. Follow the links below to read the full interviews and subscribe to my newsletter to find out when new…