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You need to pay better attention
A case for breaking away from our attentional addictions.
Mar 7 • Matt Pearce
Real wars, imagined communities
Iran and Benedict Anderson’s “Imagined Communities” in the 21st century.
Mar 1 • Matt Pearce
A guy being arrested
Prince Andrew after Jeffrey Epstein.
Feb 22 • Matt Pearce
New York diary
The bitter cold; Vaclav Havel's anti-authoritarianism; William James' pragmatism.
Feb 15 • Matt Pearce
The Millennial reader to medieval priest pipeline
When reading wins, what does the reader lose?
Feb 7 • Matt Pearce
Humiliation ritual
Losing something at the Washington Post.
Feb 5 • Matt Pearce
The other small business insurrection
Neighborism as a galvanizing check on Trumpism.
Jan 31 • Matt Pearce
How is this supposed to end?
Living free and dying in Minneapolis.
Jan 24 • Matt Pearce
Matt Pearce
Matt Pearce
Journalist. Opinions my own. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
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