Joshua Rothman

@joshuarothman

Ideas Editor and writer dot com.

New York, NY
Joined June 2010

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    25 Jan 2016

    Today is Virginia Woolf's birthday. Here's a piece I wrote about her ideas about privacy and solitude:

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  2. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    The science of C.T.E. is simultaneously persuasive, contentious & imperfect. This story attempts to untangle the controversies & see the bigger picture. Deep thanks to my clear-eyed editor & to for careful factchecking!

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  3. Playing football was always dangerous. How much riskier is it now that we know about CTE? answers that question with extraordinary clarity and even-handed thoroughness.

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  4. Jan 30

    Feeling deep regret that I didn’t know about this clip until now, and so couldn’t include it in my profile of :

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    Jan 26

    I'm reading William Gibson's new novel, Agency, and had to try my hand at making a "McWolven"

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  6. Jan 26

    I don’t think I’ve ever spoken with anyone who describes the distinctive holy-?!?!?!-ness of the present with the accuracy of . Beyond excited to continue talking in Brooklyn on Tuesday. (There are a few tickets left!) And, ICYMI:

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    Jan 9

    Did you love this profile of William Gibson () as much as we did? There are still tickets available for his reading on 1/28 - in conversation w/ - available here ->

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  8. Jan 7

    Most of us agree that too much inequality is bad—but what kind of equality is good? In this week’s , I write about the philosophy of egalitarianism, which is full of puzzles, contradictions, and insights:

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    Jan 2

    When Brueghel meets the anthropocene. Extraordinary photo by Alex Coppel of bushfire evacuees on the beach at the usually sleepy Malua Bay.

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    Big new job alert. Director of Digital Initiatives, working at the intersection of editorial, product, consumer marketing, audience development, and strategy. cc

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    One of the most human moments of the decade

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  12. Dec 31

    Remember Y2K (twenty years ago this evening)? What I did not know was that a team of Russian officials came to Colorado, and an American went to Moscow, so that both countries could work together in case of a nuclear false alarm:

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    "Silicon Valley might have promoted a style of individualism," Anna Wiener writes, "but scale bred homogeneity." reviews the "extraordinary" memoir "Uncanny Valley."

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    New from me: 's twenty-five most-read archive stories of 2019! Featuring work from , Nora Ephron, Shirley Jackson, John Hersey, Arthur Miller, , James Baldwin, Annie Proulx, , + more.

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    "In the past, going online had felt like visiting somewhere else. Now being online was the default: it was our Here, while those awkward 'no service' zones of disconnectivity had become our There."

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  16. Retweeted
    24 Dec 2019

    Now *that’s* withdrawing your labour. Striking ballerinas at the Opéra de Paris:

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    3yo son behaving badly in a Paris restaurant. Mortifying. Then the owner comes to ask me to bring him over to meet one of his regulars, a woman eating with a friend at another table. ‘So when he grows up he can say he was kissed by the great Anna Karina.’

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    Beautiful, melancholy, many-dimensional portrait of the North American treasure . (There's even talk of watches...)

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  19. 9 Dec 2019

    For the , I profiled William Gibson (). Since he coined the word “cyberspace” in 1981, people have called him “prescient.” The truth is weirder: he’s just better than the rest of us at fully inhabiting our screwed-up, sci-fi present.

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  20. 19 Nov 2019

    One man has figured out how to drive across America using only dirt roads. Those who follow his route discover an alternate U.S.A.:

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    8 Nov 2019

    Chuck Jones’ Wile E. Coyote rules.

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