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My 2023 in Reading

The New Romantic Age

Eric Adams at the Brink

The Endless War in Ukraine

John Fetterman Exits the Progressive Coalition

Mayor Andrew Cuomo?

What Can Actually Fix the Media?

Everyone's Anti-Hero

The Santos Delusion

The Apotheosis of Taylor Swift

The Political Currents Mailbag, Fall Edition

The Israel Impasse in America

The Crumbling of Eric Adams

Art and the Dinner Party

It's Time for a Mailbag

Borat's Censorship Quest

Is Israel Actually a Net Negative for DSA?

Can't the Horse Race Journalists Start Speculating on Trump's Convictions?

It's Not 2020 Anymore

Dan Goldman's Gamble

The Fortress Mindset

What's Going to Happen to Eric Adams?

Barkan's Briefly Noted (Substack Edition)

DSA Derangement Syndrome

Does Anyone Care About Free Speech?

The Burden of the American Jew

Hakeem Jeffries' Strengthened Hand

The Brain Rot of the Binary Mind

Israel, Hegemon

Should DSA Sue Eric Adams?

Hakeem Jeffries' Socialist Problem

There Is No Answer

Social Media Platforms Hate the Written Word

New York City Socialists Aren't Going Anywhere

What is Eric Adams Afraid of?

Gavin Newsom, "Lizard" King

The Illusion of San Francisco Liberalism

The Institution of Memory

Handling Journalists Isn't Very Hard

Outlier Polls Don't Matter

1939-2023

The Failure of Government

Jann Wenner and the Problem with Poptimism

Will These Women Run Against Eric Adams?

The Death of ESPN?

9/11 Is History Now

Apocalyptic Eric

Hakeem Jeffries Counts His Votes

Barkan's Briefly Noted

The Subtle Humbling of James Dolan

Will the MTA Sabotage Congestion Pricing?

The New Republican Foreign Policy

The Progressive Power Vacuum

The Great Media War to Come

Richard Ford, Late Master

Reflections on the Great Substack Panic of the early 2020s

Is the Alphabet Left in Trouble?

The Poisoned Well

Why Bernie Sanders Is More Popular Than the Squad

Can the YIMBYs Actually Keep Winning?

The Prestige Media Catches Up to Eric Adams

Threads Crashed Even Faster Than I Thought

"Tad"

Yes, the 2024 Election Will Be Very Close

Wokeness, and Taylor Swift

Whither the Comptrollers?

The Worst of All Worlds

Reconsidering AOC

The Anxious Liberal

The Art of Selling Out

What the YIMBYs Never Understand

The Twenty-First Century Category Error

Eric Adams' Other Political Nightmare

Eric Adams' Political Nightmare

Nothing is Going to Replace What Twitter Once Was

The Problem with the 'Against Travel' Essay

If It Leads, It Bleeds

You Reap What You Sow

The Last Political Machine in New York City?

The Future Belonged to Crowds

Empire's Collapse

The Elizabeth Gilbert Mess

You Send the Bill to the Governor's Desk

A World Beyond the SHSAT

The SHSAT Discourse is Broken

The Future Was Born in the 2000s

There's More to Come

Will the Failure of Governing Matter?

The Trouble With Book Readings

Does Philadelphia Offer Any Lessons for Eric Adams?

A Writers' Project

I Don't Miss the Newsroom

Three Years on Substack

The Tragedy of Jordan Neely

Eric Adams Looks to the Future

Japan, of the Future

MAGA Is Here to Stay

BuzzFeed and the Empty Hunt for Scoops

Broadcast TV Rewrites the News

Where the Media Isn't Woke

The Mayor of Rent Hikes

Progressive Governance Gets Its Test

The Ross Barkan Mailbag, Early Spring Edition

The Banal Reality of Elon Musk

Obamaworld's Problem with the Progressive Left

Heading Home

The Big City Problem That Won't Go Away

Mailbag, Mailbag

How to Define Woke?

The 2010s Fallacy That Won't Die

The Great War in Ukraine

California Saga: 2022-2023

The Tragedy of Eliot Spitzer

Is the Asian American Realignment Permanent?

The Looming Public Safety Crisis in New York City

The Reality Beyond the Fringe

Is Lori Lightfoot a Warning for Eric Adams?

The Eric Adams Media Advantage

Some Writing Advice

The Anti-Woke Gyre

What to Do About the Police?

The Media's Ancient Conflict of Interest

The Closed Imagination of the Online Liberal

It's Fine to be a Snob

Joe Biden and the Magic of Perception

James Dolan Keeps Flirting With Destruction

The Deep Frustration of Digital Media

Why Kathy Hochul Takes on the Left

James Dolan's Big Risk

Against Gawkerspeak

What Happens When They Get Tough?

California Dread

Who Runs New York?

Social Justice and the Politics of Retribution

The Pandemic Is Leaving Us