John Hendrickson

In today’s paper! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/s...

Hung out with Jack Johnson in pursuit of the secret to happiness: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/s...

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

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this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

RIP!

Honestly nothing beats it

Nirvanna the band the show the movie

Still can't believe Cola isn't a bigger band www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMGG...

"The smartphone, for many, seems to be a sort of failed lucid dreaming mechanism." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

SCOOP with Elizabeth Williamson: The Onion has a new plan to take over Infowars. It has entered into an agreement to license the Infowars brand and plans to operate it as a comedy site. A Texas judge must approve the deal. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

"Listen, I may not be part of the solution here in any fundamental way,” he said. “But I’m not part of the problem. And that’s something.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...

for the April issue, I wrote about my amazing grandmother, the forgotten women pilots of World War II, and the nature of progress: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

What more could you want www.curbed.com/article/robe...

71 in NYC. In some sense you have to admire this absolute unit

"It’s appalling to me that I even have to defend myself against a television show. These are not creative embellishments of personality. They are assertions about conduct — and they are false." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

George AI is giving David Strathairn

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her. Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Powerful words from KC Concepcion: “I wanna be a role model for those who may be scared to speak up, who may be afraid and not confident in yourself. … Don’t let a[n] outside person’s thoughts, opinions get in the way of you being great, of you achieving something in life.” ❤️

"But Tom [Junod] doesn’t write; he excavates. He digs for people’s full, messy truth on the page. Who leaps at the opportunity to do that to those he cherishes most?" @johnhendrickson.bsky.social for Esquire www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Lindsey's substack is one of my favorites, what a thrill to pop up there this morning

Deliveristas ending their shift and about to head home over the Williamsburg Bridge, though the blizzard. One of them, Salvador,tells me he’s happy for the cutoff by the city. “This is more dangerous than last snowstorm, harder to move in,” he tells me in Spanish.

“There’s a recognition of people’s pain that you don’t have unless you’ve been through some extraordinary pain yourself,” @bronwendickey.bsky.social tells @johnhendrickson.bsky.social about @tomjunod.bsky.social.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

The doctor Jeremy Boal helped convince Governor Kathy Hochul to pass New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act. He may be one of the first people to use it.

For @nymag.com, I drove upstate to meet Dr. Jeremy Boal, who is devoting his final time on earth to bringing nuance to the charged public debate around Medical Aid in Dying: nymag.com/intelligence...

My friend @johnhendrickson.bsky.social has written an honest, beautiful Esquire profile of journalist Tom Junod, whom you might know for his stories about Mister Rogers or the 9/11 Falling Man. The article explores masculinity, secrets, and betrayal, and it's told with John's big open heart.

When I wanted to write my first book, Tom Junod kindly offered to provide a blurb for my proposal (he was a fan of my covers blog). I had no real public profile and have no doubt his stamp of approval helped me get it published. Never met the guy but will be forever grateful. Excited for his book.

Thanks Feed Me! www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

I wrote about the time Jesse Jackson brought the movement to Sesame Street. [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019: "The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Unadulterated joy

"Arguing intelligence & adjacent traits are biologically determined served a clear function for Epstein, who treated women as subordinate. It’s equally unsurprising that the powerful people he cultivated might come up with a natural, objective explanation for their perch at the top of society"

spent some time in Chicago, and also at a very nice library at Yale, trying to understand JB Pritzker www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My first cover story at @nymag.com! I went to Utah to figure out how everything got so Mormon: www.thecut.com/article/morm...

Met Sam as an intern at Esquire roughly a decade ago. He was so talented beyond his years then and that's even more true now. Any outlet would be lucky to have Sam and all the other Post journos on the market today

Unbelievable

Republicans who have known Nancy Mace for years are increasingly worried about her. But why is she like this? A number of scoops and new details here, including her recently departed campaign chief going on the record to call for her to leave electoral politics altogether: nymag.com/intelligence...

“Without Dan’s voice, Philly Mag wouldn’t be Philly Mag. And, I’d argue, Philadelphia wouldn’t quite be Philadelphia.” Dan’s editor here, Brian Howard, on what our friend meant to this magazine and, more importantly, this city.

Man. RIP Dan McQuade. First met him as an intern at Philly Weekly. An effortlessly and endlessly funny dude. Fuck cancer

New video analysis from the Times: “A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.”

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...