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My 2024 in Reading

The Billionaire in Charge of the Cops

How to Write a Novel

Bet on YouTube

The New York Century

Eric Adams Heads to the MAGAverse

Pity the Short Story Writer

Will the Joker Emerge?

Who are the Elites?

Trust the Critic?

The New Status Anxiety

The Chaos President

The End of Taylor and Travis

A Conversation with Caleb Caudell

The Outer Borough Mind

AOC Agonistes

Twilight of the Liberal Left

8 Questions for... Ross Barkan

Blame Biden

Election Day is Almost Over

The Untethering

Too Big for Fascism

Can a Socialist Become Mayor?

World Series!

Tri-State Turmoil

Kamala Harris, the Do or Die Candidate

Where are the Mayoral Candidates?

The End of the Public Intellectual

Robert Moses and Racism

When Will Eric Adams Resign?

The Fall of Eric Adams

The Eric Adams Reader

The Greatest of All Time

The End of the Organizing Era

Barkan's Briefly Noted, Vol. 3

At the Center of Things

Circling the Drain

A Conversation with Tony Tulathimutte

Brat Summer Is Over

What is Kamala Harris Afraid of?

The Art of Reading

The Future of Speech

Fresh vs. Tired

Obamacore, Ubercore

Naked, Then Dead

The Democrats, Chicago-Born

A Conversation with Naomi Kanakia

The Leaderless Left

New York Has Never Had a Tim Walz

The Vanishing Biden

Writing the Conservative Mind

Barkan's Briefly Noted, Vol. 2

Is Eric Adams Going to Lose?

J.D. Vance and Betahood

The War on Genius

Kamala the Conqueror

Planet of the Woke

Donald Trump is Democratic Failure

Inside the Republican Convention

American Berserk

London, London

The Coming Divergence of Tech and Culture

The Death of the Bosses

Ignorance vs. Deception

Michelle Obama for President?

Democratic Socialism Survives

After Bernie

Let Them Run Wild

Will Brad Lander Challenge Eric Adams?

Where the Left Won

Will Trump Trigger a Second Great Awokening?

For Pedestrians (and Against Chaos)

The Death of Congestion Pricing

Who Is Mondaire Jones?

The Opportunity in Macrocultural Failure

A Conversation with Cally Fiedorek

The Trump Cinematic Universe

Optimizing to Nowhere

The Breslin Era

What Replaced the Village Voice?

The Cult of Nonfiction

From Misogyny to No Man's Land

Eric Adams Has Another Challenger

Irrelevant Eric

Civil War Tedium

Writing the Great American Novel

What Do Book Publishers Actually Do?

How Renters in New York City Got a Boost

What Are They Afraid Of?

Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?

The Parasocialism Era

Ohtani, Safe at Home

A Conversation with John Pistelli

The Death (and Life) of Takedown Culture

The Death of Debate Culture

Chatbot Politics

What a Second Biden Term Might Actually Look Like

Black Lives Matter, Palestine, and a Police Killing

What Will AI Permanently Disrupt?

Where 'Woke' Still Thrives

A Conversation with Adelle Waldman

The Problem with Shohei Ohtani

Reconsidering My Book

What Will Happen to the Asian Vote?

The Breaking of the Israel Consensus

The Governor Sent in the Troops

To the Other World

What They Get Wrong About DSA

A Conversation with Andrew Boryga

The End of the Internet?

The State of New York City

Israel Derangement Syndrome

Adverbs Are Good

Joe Biden Can Win. It Won't Get Better.

Was the Race to Replace George Santos a Bellwether?

The Great New Schism on the Left

Twelve Thoughts on the Special Election to Replace George Santos

Israel, Palestine, and the Future of American Politics

The Problem with 'American Fiction'

When Political Capital Evaporates

Generation Hustle

The Board of Elections Comes for the Socialists

Project 900

The Anti-Woke Case for Saving Local News

A Los Angeles Massacre

R.I.P. Sportsfork

Stringer Theory

BuzzFeed Goes Bust

The Three Segments of American Culture

Jumaane Williams Makes His Move

A Messenger from the Past

Project 1600

A Firm Prophesy for 2024