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Max Strasser @maxstrasser.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Trump has turned the delicate practice of peacemaking into a business for a select few stakeholders who are bound together by a thicket of financial affiliations and conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/m...

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Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff and the Profitable Business of Peace

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Max Strasser @maxstrasser.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I reviewed @mollycrabapple.bsky.social 's terrific new history of the Bund — a great read but more importantly, a book that could not have arrived at a more urgent moment. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/b...

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What Does Judaism Look Like Without Zionism?

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Max Strasser @maxstrasser.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

You can trace a faint line from trucker hats and skinny jeans to the Groypers. Read the brilliant @jenszalai.bsky.social's review essay on @wdavidmarx.bsky.social's new book www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...

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Pop Culture Got Stale. Counterculture Went Right-Wing.

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Max Strasser @maxstrasser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Can universal human rights protect your brain from Elon Musk's implants or do we need something else ... or is it too late? The latest from the brilliant Linda Kinstler: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/m...

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The Next Privacy Battleground Is Inside Your Brain

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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Why are so many business leaders caving to Donald Trump? Because of the collapse of "the establishment," which had many good consequences and at least one dubious one: corporate America is no longer very good at collective action. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

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Why Corporate America Is Caving to Trump

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Max Strasser @maxstrasser.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The inimitable Parul Sehgal on the the reckoning that is now underway: The child art star speaks. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/m...

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The Cost of Performing Childhood for Your Parent’s Art

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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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Max Strasser @maxstrasser.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Jia Lynn Yang on how the Democratic Party forgot how to do politics www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...

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How the Democrats Became the Party That Brings Pencils to a Knife Fight

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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I wrote about something that's contested nowadays: empathy.

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How Empathy Became a Threat

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Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I wish only I could have made room for Father John Misty's "I'm Writing a Novel." But I wrote about novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...

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The Death and Life of the Straight White Man’s Novel

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Max Strasser @maxstrasser.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Must read! An in-depth look at the Heritage Foundation's detailed plan to criminalize and suppress the Palestine solidarity movement in the United States, now being put into action by the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

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The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

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