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Colossus

The Endorsement Power of Zohran MamdaniRB

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Ross Barkan recommends purchasing this novel as part of the promotional tour for his own work.

“Colossus is here! Buy the novel that has been called a “challenging portrait of a thoroughly modern man.””

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You’re Invited to the Next Metropolitan Review Party!

October 15th. It’s the soiree of the season.

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Abdul El-Sayed’s Disingenuous Defense of Kamala Harris

Rewriting history isn’t great

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President Loser

The Trump show jumps the shark

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Hakeem Jeffries and the Origins of DSA Resentment

The irony of an ascendence

Ross Barkan17d

The Little Magazines Should Review More Books

Thoughts on the literary discourse

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The Rising Socialist Tide of Mamdani’s Second Term

What he might be able to expect from the City Council if he wins again

Ross Barkan22d

Will Donald Trump Actually Finish His Term?

Assessing MAGA’s bear market

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Whither the Drop Out City?

Escaping the panopticon in 2020s America

Ross Barkan26d

Can a Woman Get Elected President?

The undercurrent of AOC 2028

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Mass Culture Is (Mostly) Dead

Thoughts on the “rural surge” and the Billboard 100

Ross Barkan1mo

The Real AI “Doom” Scenario

The building boom that wasn’t

Ross Barkan1mo

Can Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Become President?

The coming political war

Ross Barkan1mo

The 9/11 Reactionaries of New York

Wrathful in defeat

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Three Years Later

On the approaching anniversary of my father's death

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Three Paths for the AI Future

Ruminations on what's to come

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When Biden Dies

Reckoning with the 46th president's legacy

Ross Barkan2mo

Should Writers Be Afraid of AI Writing Better Than Them?

A meditation on the coming world

Ross Barkan2mo

The Post-Woke World

Looking ahead to life in the late 2020s

Ross Barkan2mo

The Twin Crises of the Democratic Elites

How 2016 and 2024 explain where we are

Ross Barkan2mo

Is DSA Racist?

Idpol and its discontents

Ross Barkan2mo

The Story Is Asian American Dominance

What you need to understand about the SHSAT

Ross Barkan3mo

You Have to Understand What You Hate

On Jonathan Chait, DSA, and my advice to young writers

Ross Barkan3mo

Zohran Mamdani and the Remaking of American Politics

Preorder my book, out in October

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The New Socialist Revolution

Zohran Mamdani's remarkable night

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A Political Season Without the New York Times

Life without endorsements

Ross Barkan4mo

The Return of Boring

Thoughts on a post 2028 world

Ross Barkan4mo

JD Vance is Still a Beta

Revisiting a 2024 take

Ross Barkan4mo

The New York Power of the New York Knicks

How they've taken over the largest city in America

Ross Barkan4mo

Why Bari Weiss Failed

Storm clouds at CBS won't be chased away

Ross Barkan4mo

Zohran Mamdani's Major Political Tests

Two candidates who really need to win for him

Ross Barkan4mo

Why is Brad Lander Destroying Dan Goldman?

A dispatch from bougie Brooklyn and Manhattan

Ross Barkan4mo

Can Spencer Pratt Win LA?

Reflections from the City of Angels

Ross Barkan4mo

It's Micah Lasher's Race to Lose

A few thoughts on the primary for the most prestigious House district in America

Ross Barkan4mo

The Endorsement Power of Zohran Mamdani

And how he should wield it

Ross Barkan5mo

Let Me Hear Your Heart Beat

"Pet Sounds" at 60

Ross Barkan5mo

The Danger of the Literary Lament

On Dwight Garner, the NY Times, and the state of the book review

Ross Barkan5mo

Pub Day!

Colossus, in the world

Ross Barkan5mo

Zohran Mamdani's City Council Problem

What the socialist mayor will need to do

Ross Barkan6mo

My Struggle (to Publication)

Reflections on a strange literary road

Ross Barkan6mo

Life in a Literary Democracy

Reflections on the current culture

Ross Barkan6mo

The Most Interesting Race in New York City

DSA's newest test

Ross Barkan7mo

The New Cultural Criticism

A movement for the 2020s

Ross Barkan7mo

Here are the Substacks You Should Read

Reviving a series

Ross Barkan7mo

Why Fiction?

The struggle against anti-humanism in our new age

Ross Barkan8mo

AI Agonistes

Time for the industry to put up or shut up

Ross Barkan8mo

Can Zohran Mamdani Beat the New York Post?

The media dynamics working in his favor

Ross Barkan8mo

The Dying Animal

MAGA in twilight

Ross Barkan9mo

Teddy Starr, All-American

New fiction

Ross Barkan9mo

Charlie Kirk and a Failed Culture War

2026, fresh and bloody

Ross Barkan9mo

The Zohran Age

Inauguration Day

Ross Barkan9mo

My 2025 in Reading

Burr's Revolution

Ross Barkan9mo

The Neo-Romantic Literary Life

Post-Dimes in the 2020s

Ross Barkan10mo

The Zohran Mamdani Machine

Can he actually build one?

Ross Barkan10mo

On the Beach

Glass Century, and the relationships that make up a life

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