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virginiaheffernan, 7 days ago to random

Are phones really “poisoning” our kids? “Rewiring” childhood? Metaphors gone mad.

And let me tell you what it’s like to have a kid who won’t carry a phone.

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/reefer-madness-but-with-phones?r=6gy7&utm_medium=ios

virginiaheffernan, 15 days ago to random

Stories of seduction and betrayal by Donald Trump need to be told over and over — they’re the parables the nation most needs right now.

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/the-parable-of-michael-cohen?r=6gy7&utm_medium=ios

virginiaheffernan, 16 days ago to random

The surprisingly touching story of Michael Cohen

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/caught-up-in-it-the-michael-cohen?r=6gy7&utm_medium=ios

virginiaheffernan, 20 days ago to random

Stormy Daniels, the bored domme, brought a brand-new erotics to the American witness stand.

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/a-humiliatrix-takes-the-stand?r=6gy7

virginiaheffernan, 23 days ago to random

The Stormy weekend at the golf course was a real fall-of-Rome moment.

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/that-stormy-weekend-in-2006?r=6gy7&utm_medium=ios

virginiaheffernan, 28 days ago to random

Still waiting to see if we win or we lose,

I’m singin’ the Operation Varsity Blues 🎶

Reflections on a brutal college-admissions season (ungated!)

https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/the-higher-ed-scam

virginiaheffernan, 1 month ago to random

Trump is bearing down on us. Don't get distracted by hat-on-fence issues, as if you were a lamb to the slaughter.

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/you-are-not-a-prey-animal?r=6gy7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

virginiaheffernan, 1 month ago to random

A lesson in choosing technology, feat Bob Dylan, Grand Wizzard Theodore, and Glenn Gould https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/when-glenn-gould-walked-away?r=6gy7

virginiaheffernan, 1 month ago to random

All the Candidate’s Quacks: the shady doctors around Donald Trump

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/all-the-kings-quacks?r=6gy7

virginiaheffernan, 1 month ago to random

Traditional conservatives like Ross Douthat are still determined to see MAGA’s grievances as based in economic reality.

What does it mean that they’re really, really not?

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/trickle-down-vibenomics?r=6gy7&utm_medium=ios

virginiaheffernan, 2 months ago to random

On being old and happy

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-28/age-gallup-happiness-america-united-states

virginiaheffernan, 2 months ago to random

Trump on the NASDAQ: the clothes have no emperor.

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/trump-the-memecoin?r=6gy7&utm_medium=ios

virginiaheffernan, 2 months ago to random

Meet Jeffrey Yass, far-right booster for TikTok and Netanyahu — and Trump’s getaway car.

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/meet-jeffrey-yass-trumps-getaway?r=6gy7&utm_medium=ios

virginiaheffernan, 2 months ago to random

What tf happened to conservatism?

It started with lofty ideals and ended with MAGA.

A disturbing fairytale, featuring Edmund Burke, the French Revolution, breakdancing, TikTok, Bitcoin, and of course racism.

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/part-ii-ben-hart-the-breakdancing?r=6gy7&utm_medium=ios

virginiaheffernan, 2 months ago to random

It’s maybe the most important political question in America: Did the conservative movement jump or was it pushed? Here’s one attempt to find out how things went from Burke to Buckley to MAGA.

The Tale of Two Conservatives, Part I: Jeffrey Hart https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/from-burke-to-maga-the-conservative?r=6gy7

virginiaheffernan, 2 months ago to random

How believing it’s a good world can protect you against scams, cults, and political propaganda

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/how-believing-its-a-good-world-might?r=6gy7&utm_medium=ios

virginiaheffernan, 3 months ago to random

My father is dying, and here’s a review his final book, about the literature of World War II. This is “punctual history” — composed in the middle of things, before anyone knew how the war would end. Or whether it had even started.

https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/dawn-breaks-war-breaks-out?open=false

virginiaheffernan, 3 months ago to random

But what even IS Presidents’ Day?

(Bonus: George Washington’s thoughts on MATTRESSES. I don’t know about firmness, but he preferred no lice to lice.)

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/go-easy-on-the-powdered-wigs?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

virginiaheffernan, 3 months ago to random

Presidents’ Day blowout:

Half price subscriptions to the newsletter — at .00000001% the cost of a Casper mattress!

https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/subscribe

virginiaheffernan, 3 months ago to random

Judge Engoron got ONE thing wrong about Donald Trump and it has to do with that line from Alexander Pope.

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/the-one-thing-judge-engoron-got-wrong?r=6gy7&utm_medium=ios

virginiaheffernan, 3 months ago to random

If you’ve got room for another Substack — with many options for free content — we’ve got politics & tech for English majors here: https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan?r=6gy7&utm_medium=ios

virginiaheffernan, 3 months ago to random

On Navalny:

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/if-they-decide-to-kill-me-it-means?r=6gy7&utm_medium=ios

virginiaheffernan, 3 months ago to random

The proximity of Lesbos, where Sappho wrote of the sexiness of female separatism, made matriarchal societies seem perfectly plausible.

A profile of the Greek-American dynamo who is transforming the supply chain.

https://www.wired.com/story/shipping-industry-marina-hadjipateras/

virginiaheffernan, 3 months ago to random

Three gadgets that WORK. One for pelvic-floor agility, one for calm, and one for sleep.

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/go-gadgets-go?r=6gy7&utm_medium=ios

virginiaheffernan, 3 months ago to random

We’re getting January 6 all wrong.

https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/january-6-was-a-victory?r=6gy7&utm_medium=ios