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Daniel Engber

@engber.bsky.social
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Senior editor, The Atlantic

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
In NYT today, Frank Bruni tells the inspiring story of Woody Brown, a minimally-speaking autistic man who got an MFA at Columbia and then put out a best-selling novel. "How much do we overlook in people," he asks, " ... by making overly hasty judgments?" A very good question. (1 / 2)
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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A movie couple that would definitely have a podcast.
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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
What do you make of this claim: the Inca Empire had a progressive system of taxation in which poor people were encourage to pay in head lice, which served in turn as a public-health intervention.
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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
As a migraine sufferer I am intrigued by the "extra strength" medicine that contains the exact same dosages as the regular-strength
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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Oof, that scene at the end where Ernest Hemingway gets totally drunk and drives off a bridge www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is such an odd use of scare quotes, in the editor's note for a challenged paper: ... We are committed to "the truth" ... ?
Screenshot of editor's note
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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
So @amdocdocumentary.bsky.social has asked DOCNYC to provide "broader context" for its newsletter item about PBS's decision to pull the trans-themed film BREAK THE GAME from its scheduled slot on Apr. 7. 1/
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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
When I was a boy I liked to imagine that one day I might get to live in a world where you could actually rate the quality of each individual ring of your own doorbell. And now that future has arrived.
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