Political Currents by Ross Barkan
Ross BarkanThis is Ross Barkan's newsletter - original essays on politics, society, and culture
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 629 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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Should Writers Be Afraid of AI Writing Better Than Them?
A meditation on the coming world
On a recent episode of Daniel Oppenheimer’s excellent Eminent Americans podcast, an assistant computer scientist at Stony Brook University, Tuhin Chakrabarty, discussed his research on creativity and AI. Ch...
The Post-Woke World
Looking ahead to life in the late 2020s
Any discussion of woke is bound to frustrate because the two ideological camps, right and left, can barely agree on what it is, how long it’s existed, or how dominant it remains. Like pornography, mo...
The Twin Crises of the Democratic Elites
How 2016 and 2024 explain where we are
We live in a strange political era. It has been that way for some time, since Donald Trump descended the golden escalator more than a decade ago, and it will be up to future historians to classify and...
Is DSA Racist?
Idpol and its discontents
DSA, once more, is in the news. Walk around New York City today and you’ll find, on the front page of the New York Post, a giddy story about a prominent Black politician accusing the democratic socialists of “whit...
The Story Is Asian American Dominance
What you need to understand about the SHSAT
Every year, there is more handwringing about New York’s Specialized High School Admissions Test. The SHSAT, as it’s known, is the sole means for determining whether a New York City eighth grader...
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My new novel, Colossus, is out now. I'm also the author of Glass Century, Editor-in-Chief of The Metropolitan Review, a columnist for New York Magazine and UnHerd, and a contributor to The Nation
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