I'm a bestselling author who also wrote speeches and jokes for President Obama. On here, I write about political persuasion, how obscure cultural references explain everything, and how to live courageously when it takes guts just to read the news.
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Moral Numbness is a Sin
To say that the American people responded to last week’s grotesque Republican Convention with a collective shrug would give us far too much credit. If anything, we responded with a collective, zombified stare.
A decade ago – in the olden d...
Have We Forgotten?
I almost never write about September 11th. It feels simultaneously too personal and not personal enough.
I grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and went to school on the Upper East. I was in Mr. March’s 10th Grade English class whe...
In Defense of Nostalgia
I just got back from two weeks in Kenya.
It was a great trip. Jacqui and I saw a ton of cool animals, including lions, elephants, and an endangered golden-rumped elephant shrew which actually had a golden rump!
Am I about to show you a bu...
Political Reporters Are Missing the Point: Why Dems will Still Win Maine
I know what you’re thinking: isn’t it time someone on the internet had thoughts about Graham Platner?
I have thoughts! I promise! But I want to put them aside for a second, and write a very quick post about something that’s gotten lost ove...
Trump Goes to Bat for a Birthright Citizen
Jacqui and I were extremely lucky yesterday: we got to go a World Cup game! We ended up in the Norway section of Norway vs. Brazil, where before the game even started, I learned several things in rapid succession:
- While Brazil fans wil...
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A former Obama speechwriter and joke writer, David Litt is the New York Times bestselling author of Thanks, Obama and Democracy in One Book or Less. His next book, It’s Only Drowning, will be published on June 24, and his newsletter is “Word Salad.”
Author of "Kind of a Big Deal," "Generation Friends," and more. Bylines in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, and Slate.
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