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“Low crime rates are never used as a reason to cut police budgets. Instead, police demand a reward from the public purse, even though crime rates are at best loosely linked to police operations. Mamdani risks playing into this dynamic.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

nplusonemag.comBlue Power in New York | Stuart Schrader and Colin VanderburgColin Vanderburg: To begin, how generalizable are New York’s politics of policing and criminal justice? I think there’s an idea that the NYPD, as the country’s largest police department in the…
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“Irma understood the nature of his hope: that Dahlia would produce from her bag the antidote. . . Irma’s heart went out to him. He was bound to be disappointed and, by his disappointment, to be unstrung.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/fic...

nplusonemag.comThe Parties | Chad HarbachThere were speakers everywhere, pointed out upper-story windows, throbbing on porches, wedged in the crooks of trees, and the sum of so much blasted music composed a surprisingly gentle mélange above…

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The ICE shooting in NYC threatened to upend relations between City Hall, the mayor’s base, and the NYPD. It seems a stalemate remains, however. I explain the situation in this interview w/ @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

nplusonemag.comBlue Power in New York | Stuart Schrader and Colin VanderburgColin Vanderburg: To begin, how generalizable are New York’s politics of policing and criminal justice? I think there’s an idea that the NYPD, as the country’s largest police department in the country...
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“If Mamdani fears antagonizing the police department and disturbing this slumbering beast, he should note that things have changed.” New online: an interview with Stuart Schrader about Zohran Mamdani, the NYPD, and the challenges of confronting police power. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

nplusonemag.comBlue Power in New York | Stuart Schrader and Colin VanderburgColin Vanderburg: To begin, how generalizable are New York’s politics of policing and criminal justice? I think there’s an idea that the NYPD, as the country’s largest police department in the…
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The image depicts a person who is constantly pursued, constantly cornered, and also sleepwalking his way out of these dramatic situations, slipping the knot, serenely, buffoonishly. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

nplusonemag.comTrump’s Microphones | Dushko Petrovich CórdovaTrump is alone, photographed from below (presumably by a crouching photographer, though I never see one on the ground) so as to appear more monumental. More often than not, his arms are half-raised…
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Tonight! Get tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-become...

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Oakland! Join @hamrahrama on 10/22 for a special screening and discussion of THE BECOMERS at Shapeshifters Cinema. Tickets available now:

f.mtr.coolSelect tickets – The Becomers, with special guest A.S. Hamrah – Shapeshifters CinemaThe Becomers, with special guest A.S. Hamrah – Shapeshifters Cinema, Thu Oct 22, 2026 - Vital Signs Film Series is delighted to welcome A.S. Hamrah for a special screening, discussion, book-signing, merciless report on a film industry in self-imposed crisis, and severa...
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“In 2024. . .New College of Florida conveniently disposed of thousands of books, citing water damage. Christopher Rufo was less circumspect, referring to the book dump as ‘throwing out the trash.’”

f.mtr.coolDeath of the Mind in Sarasota | Lauren O'Neill-ButlerThe story of New College of Florida “merits attention . . . if only to record the perseverance of those who, for more than three decades, struggled to overcome numerous and daunting difficulties to help keep the institution alive.” So wrote Furman C.
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“Even if she never voiced it to herself, Holmes knew what the real namesake of her company was. . . Anyone too scared to say Thanatos might wind up with Theranos.” From 2023: Elizabeth Schambelan on Elizabeth Holmes and Stockton Rush. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

nplusonemag.comLittle Privatized Suns | Elizabeth SchambelanJoan Didion would have known what to say about Richard Stockton Rush III. I’m almost surprised she never wrote about him. He was a pure effusion of California plutocracy, someone in whom amour-propre…

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Through tracing New York's social housing from municipal public housing and union cooperatives to Mitchell-Lama, this essay argues that chronic underfunding and privatization, not public ownership, produce today's failures. By Samuel Stein in @nplusonemag.com buff.ly/mG9eaQU

buff.lySocial and Anti-Social Housing | Samuel SteinWe have public housing, but it has never been as well designed, built, or maintained. We have limited-equity co-ops built by limited-dividend companies, but we built far fewer of them, and we allowed…
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“The building housing the Film Noir Cinema in Brooklyn is up for sale. The listing calls the building ‘a true blank canvas ready for an investor, owner-user, or business owner to live their dreams.’”

f.mtr.coolLast Week in End Times Cinema | A. S. Hamrah and Will TavlinAfter a series of massive concessions by everyone from state attorneys general to the WGA to the great mass of the American people, the Paramount Skydance–Warner Brothers Discovery merger looks to be complete.
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In the US, EVs sound both novel and entombed, strange and familiar, retro rip-offs of space-age Hollywood that bristle against easy historical narrative.

f.mtr.coolEV Listening | William HarrisThe Honda Prologue has a hovering, suffusing melody, with a low rhythmic pulse and a subtle, epiphanic wash. It sounds like a computer game lifting you into heaven, or the arrival of benevolent extraterrestrial colonists. The Porsche Taycan makes a more sinister and comic, gulping, warp-speed sound, and the Nissan Ariya gives off a disturbed digital whine, like the tantrums of a petulant robot.
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“This was a trick I’d learned from Jace: saying ‘I think we’re aligned’ to confuse my enemies.”

f.mtr.coolAttention | Walker CaplanJace came back from vacation weird: He was now peaceful. When he learned of Vote Drunk, he clapped me and Mark Uptick on the backs and rubbed Ava-Claire’s shoulders and said he’d left the agency in good hands. And he only added one build: After voters share their Vote Drunk stories online to receive a bedazzled flask, their stories can be folded into a commemorative, punk-looking zine.
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DeSantis claims, without evidence, that New College “indoctrinated” students. “If you’re a professor in like, you know, Marxist studies, that’s not a loss for Florida,” he joked.  

f.mtr.coolDeath of the Mind in Sarasota | Lauren O'Neill-ButlerThe story of New College of Florida “merits attention . . . if only to record the perseverance of those who, for more than three decades, struggled to overcome numerous and daunting difficulties to help keep the institution alive.” So wrote Furman C.

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A subtle take on the real culture wars, DOGE & the dumbing down of the 'American mind'. #NPlusOne #Doge #CultureWars #NewCollege @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

nplusonemag.comDeath of the Mind in Sarasota | Lauren O'Neill-ButlerThe story of New College of Florida “merits attention . . . if only to record the perseverance of those who, for more than three decades, struggled to overcome numerous and daunting difficulties to he...
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In honor of what would be Michel Foucault’s 100th birthday, be sure to read @lclaberge.bsky.social’s brilliant essay about her Foucauldian family—now out from behind the paywall.

f.mtr.coolMichel and Mom | Leigh Claire La BergeMom’s still here. I can call her and talk to her, though not about French medical history. Not about anything, really — we mostly exchange affective states and appreciate the fact of each other’s being. Of the growing collection of losses I feel so acutely in the wake of Mom’s dementia, many are the obvious and expected. Her whole self. Her role as parent. Her daily phone calls to me. Other losses I am genuinely surprised by.

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Poets & Writers
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Our November/December issue has arrived! Inside you’ll find an in-depth profile of novelist Chad Harbach; an interview with Nicole Counts, editorial director of One World; our eleventh annual 5 Over 50 debut author feature; and so much more. Enjoy: at.pw.org/NovDec2026

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"The simplest reason to refuse resignation is that resignation can only harmonize with the tech-industry narrative of AI inevitability. When we give in, we join the sales force." From our Fall 2025 issue:

f.mtr.coolLarge Language Muddle | The EditorsThe AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes — and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror than a fact of life? In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone.

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler
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I wrote about my undergraduate alma mater New College of Florida. Many thanks to everyone who spoke with me or fact checked me (you know who you are!). It was a crazy task to pack as much as I possibly could into about 3,500 words and keep it focused and hopefully interesting for a broad readership.

nplusonemag.comDeath of the Mind in Sarasota | Lauren O'Neill-ButlerThe story of New College of Florida “merits attention . . . if only to record the perseverance of those who, for more than three decades, struggled to overcome numerous and daunting difficulties to he...
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“The school’s freshly revamped general education curriculum boasts course titles such as ‘HUM 2380: How Can I Survive, Reproduce, and Flourish?’” Lauren O'Neill-Butler on the MAGA takeover of New College of Florida.

f.mtr.coolDeath of the Mind in Sarasota | Lauren O'Neill-ButlerThe story of New College of Florida “merits attention . . . if only to record the perseverance of those who, for more than three decades, struggled to overcome numerous and daunting difficulties to help keep the institution alive.” So wrote Furman C.
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“The school’s freshly revamped general education curriculum boasts course titles such as ‘HUM 2380: How Can I Survive, Reproduce, and Flourish?’” Lauren O'Neill-Butler on the MAGA takeover of New College of Florida.

f.mtr.coolDeath of the Mind in Sarasota | Lauren O'Neill-ButlerThe story of New College of Florida “merits attention . . . if only to record the perseverance of those who, for more than three decades, struggled to overcome numerous and daunting difficulties to help keep the institution alive.” So wrote Furman C.
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Oakland! Join @hamrahrama on 10/22 for a special screening and discussion of THE BECOMERS at Shapeshifters Cinema. Tickets available now:

f.mtr.coolSelect tickets – The Becomers, with special guest A.S. Hamrah – Shapeshifters CinemaThe Becomers, with special guest A.S. Hamrah – Shapeshifters Cinema, Thu Oct 22, 2026 - Vital Signs Film Series is delighted to welcome A.S. Hamrah for a special screening, discussion, book-signing, merciless report on a film industry in self-imposed crisis, and severa...
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“We know that we’re in a bad stage and that the orange will continue to deepen — and still we’re reassured that we’re not yet at red, which would mean, presumably, ‘truly cooked.’”

f.mtr.coolOrange Era | Dushko Petrovich CórdovaAs familiar as they are, these orange maps can only depict a rehearsal, a prelude. In the pre-vaccine moment the Covid maps were terrifying, but examining them, you could imagine a future after orange. One feels very different looking at the climate maps. There is no de-escalating from orange.
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“The more I try to imagine the kind of person swayed by these advertisements, the more the group shrinks…The real money in Silicon Valley is made well before anyone thinks to put up one of these garish monstrosities.”

f.mtr.coolThe Billboards of Silicon Valley | Adrian DaubYOUR AI AGENT NEEDS A WORKFLOW ENGINE. The billboard stands by a nondescript stretch of highway somewhere between Redwood City and Mountain View. A boom, likely a bubble, made manifest. A cry of triumphant return. And probably one day, a monument to a bubble bursting.

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In this week's Top 5: —Orange, the new everything (@nplusonemag.com) —Data centers, the gold rush (@theverge.com) —Sandy “Moose” West, the hero (@bittersouth.bsky.social) —AI, the staff (@oaklandreviewofbooks.org) —Boy dinners, the community (@GQMagazine) longreads.com/2026/10/09/t...

longreads.comThe Top 5 Longreads of the Week - LongreadsStories on the color orange, the data center rush, a local hero, the AI labor takeover, and a boy dinner subreddit.
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"From the moment Chuck Berry sang in rock’s first pop hit about how his Ford V8 couldn’t keep up with his cheating lover’s Cadillac Coupe de Ville, Cadillacs have enjoyed a privileged relation to music."

f.mtr.coolEV Listening | William HarrisThe Honda Prologue has a hovering, suffusing melody, with a low rhythmic pulse and a subtle, epiphanic wash. It sounds like a computer game lifting you into heaven, or the arrival of benevolent extraterrestrial colonists. The Porsche Taycan makes a more sinister and comic, gulping, warp-speed sound, and the Nissan Ariya gives off a disturbed digital whine, like the tantrums of a petulant robot.

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”The orange of that photo soon began to metastasize. First it was a fire, then it was a color, and before too long it became a regime unto itself. We would, it quickly became clear, have to yield to orange...” (via @longreads.com.) www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/rev...

nplusonemag.comOrange Era | Dushko Petrovich CórdovaAs familiar as they are, these orange maps can only depict a rehearsal, a prelude. In the pre-vaccine moment the Covid maps were terrifying, but examining them, you could imagine a future after orange...
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“In purer forms, audiophilia remains a cloutless, glamourless pastime — and this is its claim to redemption.”

f.mtr.coolHeaven’s Melodic Strains | Colin VanderburgThe Illinois Jacquet’s 1956 sextet rendition of “Harlem Nocturne” wasn’t simply playing but occurring, happening. Jimmy Jones’s piano glowed like the sun’s last gleam, taking the day with it. I fumbled for my phone to record, in however impoverished form, the high breeze of Roy Eldridge’s trumpet, its fleet rise and easing fall. If Little Jazz’s horn was the wind, Jacquet’s tenor was the tides: waxing and withdrawing, meeting the melody in a long, estuarine flow. The sound was total, final, at once ancient and immediate. I and a half dozen others sat there, listening on the moonlit shore.
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“In general, EVs sound like tinny spaceships, or a soulless rendition of a lone Brian Eno loop.” Online: William Harris on the sounds of electric cars

f.mtr.coolEV Listening | William HarrisThe Honda Prologue has a hovering, suffusing melody, with a low rhythmic pulse and a subtle, epiphanic wash. It sounds like a computer game lifting you into heaven, or the arrival of benevolent extraterrestrial colonists. The Porsche Taycan makes a more sinister and comic, gulping, warp-speed sound, and the Nissan Ariya gives off a disturbed digital whine, like the tantrums of a petulant robot.
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“In retrospect, I can see how conceptually adrift I was, how poorly seventh grade had prepared me for poststructuralism.” From Issue 54: @marxforcats on her Foucauldian family

f.mtr.coolMichel and Mom | Leigh Claire La BergeMom’s still here. I can call her and talk to her, though not about French medical history. Not about anything, really — we mostly exchange affective states and appreciate the fact of each other’s being. Of the growing collection of losses I feel so acutely in the wake of Mom’s dementia, many are the obvious and expected. Her whole self. Her role as parent. Her daily phone calls to me. Other losses I am genuinely surprised by.
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“Speaking of Stanford, the infamous Stanford prison experiment, in which subjects were charged with being either prisoners or guards in a simulated jail setting, is being turned into a reality series by Netflix.”

f.mtr.coolLast Week in End Times Cinema | A. S. Hamrah and Will TavlinAfter a series of massive concessions by everyone from state attorneys general to the WGA to the great mass of the American people, the Paramount Skydance–Warner Brothers Discovery merger looks to be complete.
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“She repudiated Aristotle, denied the primordial split between myth and natural philosophy: Anything could, and would, be likened to everything, in the service of the sentence.”

f.mtr.coolThe Freedom of the Weasel | Grace GlassHer great themes were timeless, the stuff of the ancients’ ancients: perception, eternity, travel, the problem of evil. She repudiated Aristotle, denied the primordial split between myth and natural philosophy: Anything could, and would, be likened to everything, in the service of the sentence.
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“It was a shame this part of the evening couldn’t last forever; it was a shame they had to go to the Parties at all.” From Issue 54 and now out from behind the paywall: an excerpt from Chad Harbach's new novel, THE BRIGHTNESS!

f.mtr.coolThe Parties | Chad HarbachThere were speakers everywhere, pointed out upper-story windows, throbbing on porches, wedged in the crooks of trees, and the sum of so much blasted music composed a surprisingly gentle mélange above which burbled the happy shouts and shrieks of classmates greeting each other after a summer apart. So this, Irma thought, was the Parties.

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On this week’s show, hear @markkrotov.bsky.social from @nplusonemag.com muse on why old books are having a moment, and what it reveals about the state of the publishing industry… lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

lnk.toOn the MediaThe Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.