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The plotless lives of underground men
On assassins and the limits of biographical meaning. My first memory of a would-be U.S. assassination has long slipped from public memory, but it’s one of the earliest TV news reports I remember watching at home. On the afternoon of Oct. 29, 1994, a 26-year-old hotel upholsterer from Colorado Springs named Francisco Martin Duran stood
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Fix your union, fight for journalism, repair the world
RIP Jane Frances McAlevey, 1964-2024. There are few people who may end up having as much of an impact on contemporary American newsroom culture as the labor organizer, journalist and scholar Jane McAlevey, who died yesterday of multiple myeloma in Muir Beach, California. She wasn’t wading decisively into our industry’s trench wars over editorial focus
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Slop versus scum: A brief theory of the internet
The two faces of the platforms’ war against specificity. Whenever I lay down and open TikTok to deactivate my selfhood for a while, the For You algorithm serves me a particular type of content whose existence I’ve been puzzling over for a while: pirated scenes from movies and TV shows. I will always hover over
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Matt Pearce 