Tom Sellar

Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight A love letter to music listings

In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It's genuinely weird how E. Jean Carroll is never being mentioned in articles and TV spots right now.

This is important. More than 700 Harvard faculty, with diverse views, have now signed a letter urging the university administration to "publicly condemn attacks on universities," "legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom" and +

Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.

So it turns out Pete Hegseth lied. And Michael Waltz lied. And Tulsi Gabbard lied. And also lied to Congress while under oath. And John Ratliffe lied. And also lied to Congress while under oath.

And as ever Jeffrey Goldberg and the Atlantic were telling the truth.

This is why journalism matters.

Democrats: Send in the Shadow Cabinet! To fight Trump, the party needs unconventional thinking and a more aggressive footing in the information wars. Our friends across the pond have a good idea that they can steal.

No—the Democrats don’t have a leader. And that’s fine and normal. Someone will emerge. But in the meantime, here’s an idea.

Trump Seeks More Sway in Picking Kennedy Center Honorees The president, who recently had himself installed as the center’s chairman, has called a meeting of its board to approve changes that would give him more input in the process.

Artists, if you ever doubt that what you do matters, just look at the efforts the Trump admin is making to control what art gets made, seen, recognized.

"Nonetheless, holy shit" is the funniest possible Krugman reaction

History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

Perhaps the plant would be more subtle about caving to Putin

The Fork in the Road | Mark Greif There may well be normalcy again. But it lies on the other side—not in accommodation to this malevolent insanity, run by lackeys and toads. The risk of overreaction is trivial compared to the risks of...

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REPORTER: Would a Russian oligarch be eligible for a gold card?

TRUMP: Yeah, possibly. Hey. I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people.

DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines th...

DOGE's funding is up to $40MM, @ProPublica.org finds

And this: "If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend" www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Hundreds of Artists Call on N.E.A. to Roll Back Trump’s Restrictions A letter signed by 463 playwrights, poets, dancers, visual artists and others pushes back against new grant requirements that bar the promotion of diversity or “gender ideology.”

I did a thing, with many many others.

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges.

This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

“We should welcome the critic’s…insistence on talking about books and authors she fears no one cares about—because we should resist the impulse to justify every moment [and] because to only consume art that was created in our lifetimes is a terrifying thought.” —Apoorva Tadepalli

Anyone who thinks authors don't make money off libraries... there are almost 18,000 public libraries in the US. So if everyone went to their local branch, said "I'd like the new Pete Clines book," and they bought a copy... that's 18,000 sales.

Ask any author if that'd be good for them.