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Narrated: Humanity is Hard. Protesting is Easy.
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Narrated: Humanity is Hard. Protesting is Easy.

What happens when the banging on the Starbucks window becomes the breaking of the window? How are cataclysms formed but by many small cruelties?
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Narrated version of this article is up. Totally stealing the “we use every part of the buffalo” from my pal Ethan Strauss at House of Strauss, which my pod partner Sarah Hepola named her favorite Substack of 2023.

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110. 2023 Best and Worst of Everything
Sarah takes a break from movie-watching to record an episode of Nancy’s podcast Smoke ‘Em. We make resolutions (kinda), and it’s on to our crack analysis of 2023: Whose DNA does Sarah want to roll around in? What does “uncanny valley” mean anyway? Whose music did Sarah find “a beautiful Frankenstein amalgam”? What podcast helps us move out of the wood-chipper of the culture wars? Is 2023’s worst political story also its best? Plus, hot guys, SO many hot guys, and Sarah reveals the good thing about comedy…
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A lot of content coming your way, including from Israel, where I will head on the 15th, so many stories, so many people reaching out. Keep sending me your ideas and what you want to know more about. Also, please consider becoming a paid or free subscriber; you can “name your price!” in the Israel Reporting Fund option.

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For those following the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay, I mean, just wow, or wow on my Twitter feed. Elon Musk is still apparently having a fit about Substack’s introduction of the (Twitter-like) Notes feature, so I cannot drop in the tweets from Conor Friedersdorf and Nikole Hannah Jones; Kmele Foster and Ibram X. Kendi. I can turn to beloved and brilliant friend Kat Rosenfield, who always always adds the honey to the vinegar.

Off to arrange more Israel reporting for you, including popping in for a pre-departure visit with a Druze restaurateur on the Upper West Side, who my journalist’s nose tells me is going to lead to a story in Galilee…

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