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A short introduction & "Famous People" by Justin Kuritzkes
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Jul 3, 2019 • 
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“Savage Appetites” by Rachel Monroe 
You know when someone is such a delightful writer that it should objectively flood you with torrents of bile and inextinguishable malice towards them?
Aug 17, 2019 • 
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A Quarantine Project: Reading “The Power Broker” by Robert Caro
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Apr 6, 2020 • 
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A Quarantine Project: Reading “The Power Broker” by Robert Caro
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Resurrecting my Substack for no particular reason
Apr 12, 2023 • 
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The Power Broker, Part I: The Idealist 
Turns out Robert Moses was more fun to hang out with in college than one might expect!
Apr 22, 2020 • 
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"Fentanyl, Inc." by Ben Westhoff
I was given a galley of Fentanyl, Inc. after I wrote about overdose prevention spaces this summer, but I didn’t read it right away because, frankly, I…
Sep 25, 2019 • 
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The Power Broker Part IV: The Use of Power
A few weeks ago, the New York Times published a trend piece about how every dorkus cable news personality and politician keeps a copy of The Power…
Jun 8, 2020 • 
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The Power Broker Part II: The Reformer
Turns out Robert Moses also spent his twenties messing up.
Apr 26, 2020 • 
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“Never a Lovely So Real” by Colin Asher 
For many years my grandparents belonged to a small circle of people who called themselves the Sunset Club.
Jul 24, 2019 • 
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The Power Broker, Part III: The Rise to Power
"Meet me in Montauk"
May 10, 2020 • 
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