Otis Chandler

Smashing, a new app curating the best of the web from Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, is now available to the public.

Watching this from inside the media, I’ve experienced two contradicting feelings. First is a kind of powerlessness from working in an industry with waning influence amid shifting consumption patterns. The second is the notion that the craft, rigor, and mission of traditional journalism matter more than ever.

A recent paper by two economists at the Federal Reserve found that Mr Trump’s targeted tariffs did not work as intended. Looking at manufacturing industries such as household appliances and car parts, they found a small jobs boost from the import protection conferred by tariffs. But this was more than offset by drags from both retaliatory tariffs... See more

I don’t want to call the “young people are screwed” meme a myth, exactly. I want to call it a narrative . It’s a story that people are telling themselves, and the stories we tell about the world do shape the world. After all, affordability is the number-one buzzword in politics.

Last year, the billionaire investor Marc Andreessen, a friend of Bezos’s who once gave generously to Democrats, announced that he would back Trump. In a recent interview with the Times, Andreessen said his cohort believed that the Biden Administration had targeted the tech industry “in a very broad-based way.” There were, he said, “lots and lots of... See more