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Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The award-winning novelist and veteran tech activist Cory Doctorow has written millions of words in his nearly four-decade career. Now he's best known for a single one: "Enshittification." How did he get here? My profile: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

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A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

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Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I haven't worked at BuzzFeed in 3.5 years!

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Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Recently, I received some devastating news: my oldest friends were going on golf trips — without me. Was this my own personal male loneliness crisis? I went to golf bootcamp to try to stave off becoming a solitary weirdo who spends too much time on YouTube. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/s...

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Can Golf Save My Male Friendships?

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Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

What do Mehdi Hasan, Andrew Tate, and Bonnie Blue have in common? They all participate in the fan gangbang, an uncannily literal evolution of the parasocial style that defines modern life online www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/s...

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Revenge of the Followers

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Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Have you, computer job haver, ever wondered who is watching all of these 2, 3, 4 and even 5 hour podcasts? So did I, so I investigated. The answer is complicated! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/s...

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Who Is Watching All These Podcasts?

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Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Men are reading fewer novels than ever. Is this part of a gendered historical-social dialectic, an epiphenomenon of the male loneliness crisis, or a sign that corporate wokeness has ruined mass culture? Depends whom you ask! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

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Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear?

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Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Here is the cover of this week’s @NYTmag. If you haven’t read my story, I hope you’ll make time for it. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This is a really terrific, deeply thoughtful reckoning with personal and public/political history and the murky gray zone between international law and anything that can satisfyingly be called justice — by @bernstein.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...

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My Father Prosecuted History’s Crimes. Then He Died in One.

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

What a fantastic piece www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...

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My Father Prosecuted History’s Crimes. Then He Died in One.

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Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

My father was a Nazi hunter, until he was killed in the Lockerbie bombing, when I was four. Now, a man will stand trial for the crime. What does it mean, after nearly forty years, to seek justice for the crimes of history? My new cover story for the Times Magazine: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...

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My Father Prosecuted History’s Crimes. Then He Died in One.

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Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

For @nytimes.com I profiled Darryl Cooper/MartyrMade, the sensationally popular, Rogan and Tucker Carlson-approved history podcaster who is asking his audience not to demonize the Nazis: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/s...

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The Podcaster Asking You to Side With History’s Villains

Darryl Cooper is no scholar. But legions of fans — many on the right — can’t seem to resist what he presents as hidden truths.

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Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Hello! I'm blowing the dust off of this account. I'm not going to promise to post here regularly. But I do promise to use it to promote myself whenever possible.

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Joel Budd @joelbudd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

In case anyone hasn't read it, this is the definitive 2010s story. The NYC private school, the marketing job, the clothing line, the job as a stripper, the sleazy, crack-addicted boyfriend, the Tribeca art gallery, the new home decor line--it has everything. Perfect. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/s...

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Zoë Kestan Met Hunter Biden One Night at a Club. Then She Fell in Love.

A chance meeting in December 2017 plunged Zoë Kestan, a downtown “it” girl and social media star, headlong into an unpredictable affair.

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