Max Strasser
maxstrasser.bsky.social
Max Strasser
@maxstrasser.bsky.social
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You can trace a faint line from trucker hats and skinny jeans to the Groypers.

Read the brilliant @jenszalai.bsky.social's review essay on @wdavidmarx.bsky.social's new book

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Pop Culture Got Stale. Counterculture Went Right-Wing.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Can universal human rights protect your brain from Elon Musk's implants or do we need something else ... or is it too late?

The latest from the brilliant Linda Kinstler:
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The Next Privacy Battleground Is Inside Your Brain
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November 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Why are so many business leaders caving to Donald Trump? Because of the collapse of "the establishment," which had many good consequences and at least one dubious one: corporate America is no longer very good at collective action. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...
Why Corporate America Is Caving to Trump
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September 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The inimitable Parul Sehgal on the the reckoning that is now underway: The child art star speaks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/m...
The Cost of Performing Childhood for Your Parent’s Art
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September 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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What do Mehdi Hasan, Andrew Tate, and Bonnie Blue have in common? They all participate in the fan gangbang, an uncannily literal evolution of the parasocial style that defines modern life online
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/s...
Revenge of the Followers
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August 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Jia Lynn Yang on how the Democratic Party forgot how to do politics

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...
How the Democrats Became the Party That Brings Pencils to a Knife Fight
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August 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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I wrote about something that's contested nowadays: empathy.
How Empathy Became a Threat
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July 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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I wish only I could have made room for Father John Misty's "I'm Writing a Novel." But I wrote about novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...
The Death and Life of the Straight White Man’s Novel
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July 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Must read! An in-depth look at the Heritage Foundation's detailed plan to criminalize and suppress the Palestine solidarity movement in the United States, now being put into action by the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
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May 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM