Broken but Readable
Greg Scaduto is a freelance journalist, corporate finance professional, and a former US Army officer.
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A letter to Elon Musk.
Dear Elon,I’d like to offer you some advice, if you don’t mind.A great deal has been written about you these last few years, and most of it agrees that you are something monstrous. A villain in a…
In defense of the boomers.
My mother grew up in a house with five kids and almost no money. My grandfather made their lunches every day: two slices of Wonder Bread, one slice of bologna, repeat. The day she got into medical…
The death of the phone call.
You sit at the desk in the basement corner you call your office. The window above it looks at nothing. Just a wedge of grass and the foundation of the neighbor’s house. The screen glows the pale blue…
The inventory of an empty house.
Gender discourse has become stupid. I do not mean controversial, or incendiary, or even wrong, though it manages all three on a good day. I mean stupid in the technical sense, as a failure of the…
Phronesis
I recently walked around Princeton University’s campus on a Saturday afternoon. It was beautiful in the way old American campuses always are: stone buildings with ivy climbing the walls, oak trees…
You were never meant to love your job.
Most people are told to follow their passion. This advice is exactly wrong for most of them.For most of us, and I mean most of us, like the overwhelming, unglamorous, beautiful majority of us, you…
The wound beneath the wound.
Trauma. We are all very into trauma right now. It is on our podcasts and in our group chats and in the passive-aggressive email your aunt sent after Thanksgiving, which is technically about the…
Into the black
They built me and they named me Voyager and they lit the fire and they stood back. Not one of them could follow. They knew this. They built me knowing this and they lit the fire anyway and I rose up…
The two things that could end human control forever.
The AI ProblemTwo topics have something important in common: they both defy easy analysis because they refuse to stay inside a single discipline. One is artificial intelligence. The other is the…
A question for the American South (and all my beloved Catholics, too): what would Jesus redact?
As I listened to Pam Bondi’s testimony, I felt a physical dread I have rarely known. A cold thing low in the gut like a stone falling through water. I searched my memory for its equal and found it:…
The political economy of not answering the question
I love Reddit. The discussion website Reddit.I love it the way I love watching people at the airport after a flight gets canceled.There’s this moment when the announcement comes through and…
There are no dreams here.
People sometimes ask why I return to these accounts.I don’t return to them. They return to us.Men and women encounter things that do not ask to be believed. They arrive in the night, or in still…
Eyes in the dark.
In the past 30 days since I started doing these podcasts, over a thousand people a day are have been downloading them, but of course not subscribing. I’m not too worried about that. But I’m going to…
Why, unfortunately, I can no longer read the New York Times
A note from management, to beloved listeners: at several points throughout this audio essay written for A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, I mistakenly say “A.J.” instead of…
The great moral sleepwalk: how Sam Harris, Ross Douthat, and Caitlin Flanagan lost the plot
Two brief notes from the author, offered in good faith and with affection, which I invite listeners to read before sharpening their knives:1. At approximately 1 minute and 35 seconds into the…
What does non-speaking autism feel like?
We talk about autism as if it were a single thing, when it’s really an argument between biology, identity, suffering, and love, carried out inside real lives. People are always trying to define it,…
In North Dakota's man camps, Indigenous women disappear
Before I started doing these as audio essays, back when this was all just words on a screen that you scrolled through while pretending to answer emails, I wrote a piece that I assumed would sink…
Who is Iran?
We have to start far back. Because Iran does not yield itself to haste. It is not a young country that wandered into trouble, but an old one that learned how to survive it.Long before the present…
The lecture hall of dead-eyed undergraduates.
The CampusI walked across Fordham’s Bronx campus in the early fall, when the air still held a trace of summer but the light had already begun to thin. Leaves scraped along the walkways like small…
NATO is not a charity
In 2014, Vladimir Putin was helping himself to Crimea, as one does when one has tanks and a complicated relationship with borders. In the summer of that year, the U.S. Army sent my unit to Germany to…
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Broken but Readable has published 22 episodes since January 2026, covering topics in Philosophy, Society & Culture.
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