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Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.

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“The Case for Letting Malibu Burn,” a chapter from Ecology of Fear, Davis argued that taxpayers shouldn’t keep forking out to rebuild a wealthy district that predictably burned to the ground every couple of decades. Davis

Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age

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The Score Takes Care of Itself.

Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success

We are confused, or maybe divided is a better word, as to whether they are national champions in competition over the spaces that will define the rest of the 21st century or whether they are villains that are threatening consumers’ privacy, rational dialogue and civility, and our public culture

Jessica Lessin • Larry Summers on Trump’s ‘Tragic Precedent,’ TikTok and Regulation

For years, Yarvin was best known, to the extent that he was known at all, as the court philosopher of the Thiel-verse, the network of heterodox entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and hangers-on surrounding the tech mogul.

Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

Brock has cultivated an impressive body of liberal megadonors and assembled an eclectic collection of no fewer than thirty smear-related projects, most notably his flagship “media watchdog,” Media Matters. This collection of groups was cited to me by nearly every Democrat and Republican operative I interviewed as the most ubiquitous and successful

Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

Othman was the director of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission.

Ronen Bergman • Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

At the core of this is a debate on whether The New York Times, The Washington Post and others are failing the American people by pushing more content behind the paywall.