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What is "Muskism"?
Greetings from Read Max HQ! For this week’s edition of my intermittment podcast with John Ganz (author of When the Clock Broke and proprietor of the Unpopular Front Substack) we were pleased to host…
Talking the 'Dark Enlightenment' with John Ganz and Maya Vinokour
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other week, John Ganz (author of When the Clock Broke and proprietor of the…
Talking Iran and taking questions with John Ganz
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., or, really, whenever it’s convenient, John Ganz (author…
Talking Anthropic, Iran, and the Department of Defense with John Ganz
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., or, really, whenever it’s convenient, John Ganz (author…
Is the left "behind" on A.I.?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., and sometimes on Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m., or, really,…
Talking fascism and the suicide right with John Ganz
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., and sometimes on Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m., or, really,…
Talking Minneapolis, Venezuela, Elon Musk, and speaking 'Trumpanese'
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m. John Ganz (author of When the Clock Broke and proprietor…
Talking Trump's Reiner comments, Brown shooting misinformation, and white men in media with John Ganz and Jay Kang
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comIn this conversation--joined by Jay Caspian Kang of The New Yorker and Time To Say Goodbye, and about 7,000 confused…
Talking A.I. bubbles and Trump's racist rant with John Ganz
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., John Ganz (author of The Year the Clock Broke and…
Talking 'American Canto' and Jeffrey Epstein with John Ganz
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comThis week, John and I talked about the journalist Olivia Nuzzi, an excerpt from whose new memoir American Canto ran…
Talking Zohran and Kalshi with John Ganz and Jay Kang
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., John Ganz (author of The Year the Clock Broke and…
The Silicon Valley-Trump bet
Greetings from Read Max HQ! This week’s newsletter is a video-slash-podcast-slash-Substack Live with my friend John Ganz. Among the topics discussed:* The Epstein birthday book and the unbelievably…
Steelmanning Peter Thiel
My friend John Ganz and I reformed our intermittent podcast this week to talk about New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s interview with PayPal founder Peter Thiel. Among the topics covered:* Why…
Two deeply upsetting photographs
Greetings from Read Max HQ! Today’s post is a Read Max audiovisual product featuring cohost Sam Biddle, senior technology reporter at The Intercept.A quick interstitial reminder: Read Max is a…
Escape from Slopworld
Greetings from Read Max HQ! On Tuesday afternoon John Ganz of Unpopular Front joined me for an experimental “Substack Live” with only two brief interruptions (one when I fat-fingered an end to the…
Which Houthi P.C. Small Group Member are you?
Greetings from Read Max HQ! We’re back with another episode of [Untitled Read Max Audio Property]. This week, The Intercept’s Sam Biddle and Read Max’s Max Read discuss:* The hottest group chat in…
What if "A.I." is just more surveillance?
Greetings from Read Max HQ! Today, the first in what I hope will be a regular series with my old friend Sam Biddle, senior technology reporter at the Intercept and a former writer for Gawker and…
The Silicon Valley canon and malformed publics
Greetings from Read Max HQ! This week’s newsletter is a podcast episode with John Ganz of Unpopular Front and Henry Farrell of Programmable Mutter. We talk about Henry’s recent Bloomberg article…
What the hell is going on with Elon Musk?
Greetings from Read Max HQ! A bonus newsletter this week containing a podcast with John Ganz of Unpopular Front and Quinn Slobodian, Professor of International History at Boston University and author…
Elon Musk and our other new DOGE overlords
Greetings from Read Max HQ! Today, to round out December before our annual year-end post, a podcast with John Ganz on the ascension of Elon Musk to shadow-president-via-shitposting.On this episode we…
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