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Greetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., and sometimes on Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m., or, really, whenever it’s convenient. John Ganz (author of When the Clock Broke and proprietor of the Unpopular Front Substack) and I host a Substack Live chat about politics, tech, culture, and the pieces we’ve been working on.
While the chat is free whe…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.com

Greetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m. John Ganz (author of When the Clock Broke and proprietor of the Unpopular Front Substack) and I host a Substack Live chat about politics, tech, culture, and the pieces we’ve been working on.
This week, we were lucky enough to be joined by the great Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker staff writer, host of the “Critics…

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In this conversation--joined by Jay Caspian Kang of The New Yorker and Time To Say Goodbye, and about 7,000 confused viewers expecting discussion of Venezuela--we talked:
Trump’s comments on Rob Reiner (covered by Ganz here)
The fever-dream of rumor and conspiracy emerging on Twitter/X in the wake of the mass shooting at Brown University (and what’s changed from the panic that set in after the Boston Marathon bombing)
Jacob Savage’s Compact magazine piece about white men in Hollywood and the media
Charlotte Klein’s New York magazine piece about Bari Weiss.
We also fought with a number of commenters on the livestream who arrived via a misleading Substack app push notification. Enjoy!

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.com

Greetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., John Ganz (author of The Year the Clock Broke and proprietor of the Unpopular Front Substack) and I host a Substack Live chat about politics, tech, culture, and the pieces we’ve been working on.
While the chat is free when live, and a short preview is available above, only paying subscribers ca…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.com

This week, John and I talked about the journalist Olivia Nuzzi, an excerpt from whose new memoir American Canto ran this week in Vanity Fair; her ex Ryan Lizza’s follow-up; Ganz’s annoyed response; the publication of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails; why Epstein would have loved the A.I. age; and what this all has to do with Machiavelli.While the chat is free when live, and a short preview is available above, only paying subscribers can access the archive of these chats as video and podcast audio!