Frank Bruni
@frankabruni.bsky.social
Journalist, book author, professor, North Carolinian.
North Carolina is emphatically, undeniably, intensely purple -- and a new map could give Republicans 11 of our 14 House seats. Some democracy we have here. My newsletter >>> www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Opinion | For Shame, North Carolina. For Shame.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
North Carolina is emphatically, undeniably, intensely purple -- and a new map could give Republicans 11 of our 14 House seats. Some democracy we have here. My newsletter >>> www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
My reflection on all the president's flatterers -- and all their gooey hooey. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...
Opinion | What JD Vance, Kash Patel and a Throw Pillow Have in Common
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October 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
My reflection on all the president's flatterers -- and all their gooey hooey. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...
Most professors aren't unhinged. I swear! But Ginia Bellafante very smartly connects the dots of movies and TV series fixated on this new archetype, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/s...
The Age of Unhinged-Professor Art
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October 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Most professors aren't unhinged. I swear! But Ginia Bellafante very smartly connects the dots of movies and TV series fixated on this new archetype, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/s...
Is Trump's vanity an excessively chronicled distraction -- or the toxic root of almost all that's wrong with how he governs? Bret Stephens and I discuss, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...
Opinion | When Vanity Is Your Superpower
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October 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Is Trump's vanity an excessively chronicled distraction -- or the toxic root of almost all that's wrong with how he governs? Bret Stephens and I discuss, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...
Not so long ago, I couldn't have imagined reading a sentence like this: "In the afternoon, officials confiscated the Pentagon press badges of hundreds of journalists, including mine." Great, sad, scary article: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps
I’ve been evicted from a building I’ve covered for 18 years. I’ll keep doing my job anyway.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Not so long ago, I couldn't have imagined reading a sentence like this: "In the afternoon, officials confiscated the Pentagon press badges of hundreds of journalists, including mine." Great, sad, scary article: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Will chat with Rep. Ro Khanna at Duke on Mon., Nov. 10. If you're in or near the Raleigh-Durham area, please join us for this free, in-person-only event; the congressman is game for audience questions. Details, including registration: provost.duke.edu/independent-....
"Independent Thinkers" Conversation: Ro Khanna | Office of the Provost
Image How does America move past this fractious, furious juncture? Are there ways to bridge the divide and lessen the acrimony between rival political camps? Please join
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October 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Will chat with Rep. Ro Khanna at Duke on Mon., Nov. 10. If you're in or near the Raleigh-Durham area, please join us for this free, in-person-only event; the congressman is game for audience questions. Details, including registration: provost.duke.edu/independent-....
Since I entered academia, friends constantly ask about my students' POLITICS. But what's more striking is my students' HYDRATION. This is one soggy crew, as I explain in the final section of my NYTimes newsletter this week >>> www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Opinion | Can the Senate Survive Donald Trump?
The vaunted chamber’s degradation preceded him. But he may trash it once and for all.
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November 23, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Since I entered academia, friends constantly ask about my students' POLITICS. But what's more striking is my students' HYDRATION. This is one soggy crew, as I explain in the final section of my NYTimes newsletter this week >>> www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
This chewy postmortem on postmortems illustrates that two of the greatest biases in media aren't about left or right; they're about echoing the chorus of the moment and about finding a story and selling it boldly, no matter its actual subtlety. Worth reading >>> www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...
Opinion | Election Myths, Traps, Truths and Lessons
We won’t have enough data to tell the full story of the election for some time. But there are a few things we can say for sure now.
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November 23, 2024 at 1:35 PM
This chewy postmortem on postmortems illustrates that two of the greatest biases in media aren't about left or right; they're about echoing the chorus of the moment and about finding a story and selling it boldly, no matter its actual subtlety. Worth reading >>> www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...