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Ajay's avatar

I think I first started reading you at the original Gideon's Blog in 2005, which I found via the old (Douthat-Salam-Menashi) American Scene, and I've followed you to each of your subsequent platforms. What I value most about your writing is the feeling that you're thinking things through in real time; there's a sense of a mind actively at work in most of what you write that feels almost electric. I don't have any particular disappointments, but (your busy schedule permitting) I would love to see you write more on literature, just because I really like your arts writing (for some of the same reasons Leah gave) and literature is the type of art I engage with most.

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Mike Cotton's avatar

I first read your writing on The American Scene, I think. Not sure how I found it there, but then at some point I largely lost track of you, until Freddie deBoer, to whom I subscribe, mentioned in one of his newsletters that you were writing on Substack, so I came over and subscribed. From my perspective you’re still doing what you do — writing thoughtful, contemplative essays that complicate the standard frames — for which I’m grateful.

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