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All in on this one: Greg Afinogenov is brilliant. “Academia is political today because everything is political—even (or especially) claims that someone or something else is too political.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Ask, and I shall receive! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

"They were interested, each of them, in doing something beyond analysis & handwringing. That included creating a cultural front against the great replacement of public space, play, & common life with quantification, dashboards, glowing screens, and endless feeds." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

This is a very enjoyable essay from David Wingrave for @nplusonemag.com, about hope. Featuring England men's football, pregnancy, and Burnham. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“I’m from Ecuador and I used to be good at soccer, so at some point I began telling myself that I was good at soccer *because* I was from Ecuador. I believed this despite the fact that I hadn’t played soccer while living in Ecuador.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

I rarely enjoy a get-off-the-damn-phone piece, but this essay, funny and big-hearted, is a new favorite. @nplusonemag.com (I feel the irony of posting this on social media) www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

[taps the sign] www.nplusonemag.com/issue-42/ess...

“The Luddites see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political project.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

newwwwwww ting out <3

"I left feeling a pooling, connective happiness. I went home and realized that I hadn’t looked at my phone for six hours." Sarah Thankam Mathews hangs out with the Luddites, NYC's tech-critical cultural youth front: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Far behind on my @nplusonemag.com reading (like a year) and holy shit this Dawn Lundy Martin essay is a banger. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

Wrote about the pleasures of being saved from burning planes for @nplusonemag.com, co-published here with @chicagoreader.com: chicagoreader.com/city-life/di....

“While the plane wasn’t really on fire, it nonetheless felt apocalyptic, the way many harmless things now do.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“‘I don’t think that’s very realistic,’ said the artist, who was serving as a volunteer from an Irish American service society. ‘This was a jet engine, not a propeller plane.’ ‘I’d like them anyway,’ the woman said. ‘Just do what you can.’”

“At 7 AM on a Saturday, I participated in a mass-casualty simulation drill held in the firefighter training area of O’Hare International Airport.” New: Morley Musick participates in a fake plane crash. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

This week's Staff Picks are all about #magazines, spotlighting @newyorker.com, @harpers.bsky.social, @satevepost.bsky.social, @theonion.com, and @nplusonemag.com.

That’s just this intensely diasporic and migratory sport’s beautiful confusion of dialects and accents, yeah? On language and the World Cup, for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

On the field, every World Cup is a contest of idioms. At an official level, however, the World Cup’s cacophony of styles cedes to a party-pooper monolingualism. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...