Murdoch’s TikTok? Trump offers allies another lever of media control
Blake Montgomery Wed 24 Sep 2025
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Take Amazon: to fix Amazon, we need policy solutions. We need to ban predatory pricing – selling goods below cost to keep competitors out of the market (and then jacking…
Indie Piano Songs
Over the past two decades, alternative music has slowly bled and blended its way into the mainstream. The resulting music is responsible for some of pop music’s most interesting contributions.…
DHS official defends Mahmoud Khalil arrest, but offers few details on why it happened
A White House official told the Free Press that there's no allegation that he broke any laws. So, again, I have to ask, what specifically constitutes terrorist activity that he…
My Brilliant Frenemy
The contentious bond between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz
urban renewal
from Take This Hammer
civilization
Shifting Paradigms: From Eurocentrism to Intellectual Autonomy
There’s no such thing as ‘parents’ rights’
The basic problem with the conservative discourse around “parents’ rights” is that it frames children as chattel—that is, as parents’ property. But—and I can’t believe I even have to say…
Everyone’s a sellout now
So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok?
Medieval violence
one anti-recommendation and two actual reading recs