8. Given my love love of magazines & what they stand for, it was hard for me to leave The New Republic and hard now to partially leave the Nation (where I'm giving up my 3-times a week column but keeping my monthly print column). Which raises the question: why Substack?
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9. The shortest answer I can give is: I miss blogging and Substack seems the best path for a return to a viable blogging culture (not just for me but in general).
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10. A lot of you are too young to remember but there really was a efflorescence of blogging circa 2000-2010 or so. Like any supposed golden age it had plenty of dross (lots of warmongers especially 2001-2003) but also lots of positive developments (the current left revival).
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11. If you look at the 21st century revival of feminism, anti-racism & social democracy, a lot of the seeds of the current moment -- really the start of a cultural and intellectual infrastructure -- were planted in the early blogs.
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12. It wasn't just that the blogs opened up venues for new voices, but they also allowed like-minded people to find & influence each other. Moreover for many mid-tier bloggers , it was even economically viable until Google came along & ate all the ad revenue.
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13. Blogging encouraged a kind of provisional, open-ended thinking -- along with engagement with other bloggers -- which I think was good for people and really helped move conversation forward. Also created a bridge between experts & wider community.
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14. Twitter of course is a kind of blogging and god knows I've made use of it in that way. It's especially good for engagement & thinking out loud. But the 240 character limit -- even with threads -- prevents some arguments from being developed as they should.
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15. As with blogging, substack of course has its share of dingbats -- the caliper enthusiasts etc. -- but I've been impressed by the way
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16. All of which is a round-about way of saying I'll now be found on Substack, where I'll continue (as I do here) to try and think about the world we share. I hope you join me:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-time-of-monsters …
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Maybe I'm blind but I can't find who did the cartoon. Looks like Seth? Is it Seth?
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