The Time Lost to Commuting
Photo by Robert So There are a handful of peculiar American institutions: overdraft fees, health insurance tied to your employer, and my topic today—the...
Learning to Not Believe Your Eyes
Photo by Cottonbro Studios It feels like deep fakes hit the mainstream this week, with disastrous results. A deepfake is a “video of a person in which their...
Scam AI Deep Fakes are More Popular than that Katt Williams Interview
A stressed Phylicia Rashad facing off with online scammers in the film “The Beekeeper” I never thought that a Jason Statham movie could give a fit of...
How I Fell in Love with a Bagel
Photo by Lucie Liz Getting eight hours of sleep is extremely underrated. Welcome to perhaps the most jet-lagged edition of the newsletter. I am fully in that...
The Bastardization of Colorblindness
Former President of Harvard University, Claudine Gay Greetings from lovely, snowy, and brick cold New York City. I'm in my third timezone this week and...
Merry Christmas, America — I Don’t Know What Else to Say
Photo by Rosemary Ketchum Welcome to the first edition of Takes & Typos hosted on Buttondown. If you missed the update midweek about the switch from...
I Refuse To Share Space With Neo Nazis And White Supremacists
It's time for me to exit Substack I don't have a lot of redlines in my life. But one redline I do have is that if an institution or business says that “Nazis...
The Bear is the Best Thing on TV this Year and Nothing is Really Close
FX’s “The Bear” is the most important thing on television and nothing is particularly close Here in Takes & Typo-stan, we’ve been winding down 2023 with a...
The Most Important Thing I Heard to This Year — Slow Burn, Season 8: Becoming Justice Thomas
Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving and arguably most influential member of the United States Supreme Court I am 44 years old. Clarence Thomas has been on...
The Most Important Book I Read This Year: “Poverty, By America” by Matthew Desmond
Roughly 1500 US families face eviction each week We live in a neoliberal world. In Thursday’s class, we had a seminar discussion about the concluding chapter...
Napoleon: The Lamentations of a New-ish History Teacher
Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon in Egypt This week’s newsletter is coming to you on Monday. We hosted Friendsgiving this weekend and my basketball team had a...
One Year Take-iversary
Photo by Elizaveta Kushnirenko on Unsplash Smarter people than me have written volumes about the antics of Elon Musk and the decline of Twitter. However, it...
Rejecting Brain-Dead Neutrality and Censorship
Photo by Şeyma D. As I mentioned last week, this upcoming Sunday will be the first anniversary of Takes & Typos. I am planning to publish a reader mailbag to...
No, Markets Aren't Self-Correcting — Corporate Consolidation Part III
Photo by Suzy Hazelwood From time-to-time, the newsletter does an unintentional or unplanned series. We are in one such triplet (see: here and here) about...
Monopolies and Corporate Consolidation are Neither Natural nor Inevitable
Photo by Suzy Hazlewood Happy Sunday, This week’s newsletter is a continuation of our conversation from last week about the causes of the diminishing...
Consolidation and Near Monopolies Are Making Everything Terrible
Andy Rooney was a national treasure. We need truth tellers like him for the busted moment we’re all trapped in. This may be the edition of the newsletter...
Armenia: An Ancient People with a History Marked by Tragedy
The Goshavank Monastery in Gosh – Photo by Hope Barev dzez (Hello in Armenian), This week’s newsletter is coming on Tuesday because I was in transit back...
An AI in Every Email, DM, and Groupchat—Zuckerberg's Vision for the Future of the Internet
Subscribe now Today's newsletter is my attempt to triangulate two points of view articulated by people with very different takes about the future of the...
The Trial of the Tacoma Police Officers who Murdered Manuel Ellis
Happy Sunday, Over on the podcast this week, we have a conversation with Brian Lettinga from Search Associates. He’s a recruiter/matchmaker for educators...
When Schools Grieve
Subscribe now The typical American high school is the size of a small town. My old school, Lincoln, floated between 1500 and 1800 students in my decade...