'The most remarkable reality of the old Voice—beyond the fact that Rupert Murdoch owned it for nearly a decade—was that its writers could absolutely go to war with each other.'

Ross Barkan on how we can revive a journalistic culture that embraces debate:

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Quotes below (with which i agree) are from Ross Barkan's The Death (and Life) of Takedown Culture: 'Why the Bookforum piece on Lauren Oyler resonates'; you can read it on his sub s

Buffalo Bills running back has died.

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Thursday reads: Suzy Weiss for The Free Press, Ross Barkan for his S*bstack, Nina Power for The Critic, Sophie McBain for The New Statesman, Lisa Borst for Bookforum Magazine, Alana Pockros for The Nation, Freya India for her S*bstack, and many others.

I wrote on the scathing review of Lauren Oyler in Bookforum and why it resonated so much.

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Tuesday reads: Ross Barkan for Persuasion, Yang for Tablet Magazine, Phillip Maciak for The New Republic, db for The Nation, Fred Bauer for City Journal, Ben Lindbergh for The Ringer, Constance Grady for Vox, and many others.

The death of debate culture.
Some great observations from Ross Barkan
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A Columbia University professor recently asked a student to remove a Palestine emoji from the end of their name online because it had “caused trauma reactions:' Ross Barkan on our lost debate culture persuasion.community/p/bring-back-t… Persuasion

'Unknown writers could furiously denounce the Voice in the letters section and find themselves, shortly afterward, with their own columns.'

When it comes to building a culture of free debate, The Village Voice was the model, writes Ross Barkan.

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All very true. Except my next novel is going to be very 'important' haha

One of the ways I've changed with age is becoming less poptimist and much more invested in taste, particularly as philistines continue to exert enormous cultural influence

I didn't feel any earthquake or aftershock; I've never felt so left out.

I'm at opening day in the Bronx. No earthquake here. This is what happens, I suppose, when I leave Brooklyn.