Karl Taro Greenfeld

Roads & Kingdoms, Issue 1 Included with Conspirator and Fellow Traveler memberships Our annual print magazine includes 144 pages of arresting visuals and in-depth storytelling from writers, artists, and photographers around th...

The venerable Roads&Kingdoms is back with a print issue. I contributed an essay about the fire and fleeing America. I think it’s among my strongest essays.

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Do Not Obey in Advance

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ICE believes it will never face accountability again The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.

This is excellent and painfully necessary & says a lot more than its headline suggests - so it’s well worth reading it through.

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...

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Musk must be delighted they are defacing and vandalizing Waymos instead of Teslas

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Oprah Shamed Him. He’s Back Anyway.

How does the NYT do a story about James Frey w/out mentioning his 20 year career as a TV writer and producer? Presumably that’s how he’s made a living. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/s...

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Make up w/ Musk

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It’s a Home Depot, not a Reichstag, but you see where he is going with this.

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The Island of No Regrets In the limitless, drug-fuelled summer before the publication of his first book, the young writer Karl Taro Greenfeld buries looming disappointments with Europe’s drifters in Ibiza.

On Ibiza, by @karltaro.bsky.social for Roads and Kingdoms, from 2015:

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Why I’m Leaving Pacific Palisades My family survived the fire. We want to rebuild. But another, greater conflagration has enveloped us.

I wrote what we used to call a “casual” in The Atlantic

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