![]() The Atlantic is nonpartisan, and its writers include people from differing political views who argue that Trump's Republican Party is off the rails. In recent years, its journalists and opinion writers have made it one of the few magazines that are still relevant. INSKEEP: Now, Jeffrey Goldberg edits a publication that's been around since 1857. At the very least, I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror, and I want to be able to explain to my children and my grandchildren, we tried. JEFFREY GOLDBERG: What we were thinking was that we have to do whatever we can do, while there's time, to put out in plain English what we think will happen if Trump is elected again. Justice Department, prosecute his enemies, disempower experts, promote his own loyalists and trample on the checks and balances at the heart of American government. Twenty-four writers argue that if given a second chance in power, he would warp the U.S. The Atlantic magazine marks that development with an entire issue devoted to Trump. (In her opinion.This country is about to start an election year, and Donald Trump remains the leading Republican candidate. Meghan is the creator and host of The Unspeakable Podcast, an weekly interview program wherein she talks with authors, scholars, scientists, philosophers, entertainers and others about “taboo” topics that nonetheless must be discussed if society is going to move forward. She is an adjunct associate professor in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she was once a student herself. Her work has also appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Vogue. For more than a decade, she was an opinion columnist for The Los Angeles Times. Meghan was a columnist for Medium’s GEN Magazine from 2018 to 2020 and wrote a weekly blog for Medium until early 2021. Her other books include the essay collection My Misspent Youth, the novel The Quality of Life Report, and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House, a memoir. She is also the editor of the New York Times bestseller Selfish, Shallow & Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not To Have Kids. Her last book was the collection of original essays The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, which won the 2015 PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfiction. ![]() Meghan Daum is the author of five books, including The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through The New Culture Wars, which The New York Times named a Notable Book of 2019. The Problem With Everything is, at its root, a book about nuance-about calling out tribalistic click-bait and finding a way back to rational thought and intellectual honesty. In a voice that is thoughtful, funny, and bold without being gratuitously provocative, she addresses the Trump resistance, the Kavanaugh hearings, #MeToo, identity politics, women’s marches, sexual assault on college campuses, the “free speech wars,” the benefits and perils of social media, the role of comedy and, above all, the delicate interplay between human vulnerability and human resilience. Wrestling with cognitive dissonance as well as a sense of Gen X obsolescence, Meghan Daum attempts to make sense of the current zeitgeist, taking on what she calls “the problem with everything,” a concept she discussed in her August 2018 viral Medium article, Nuance: A Love Story. ![]() THE PROBLEM WITH EVERYTHING, published in October 2019 by Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books, is a poignant and powerful account of today’s social and political landscape. “The Problem with Everything is both a stylistic tour de force and a lifeline thrown to those of us who feel like we’re drowning in nonsense.” - Geoff Dyer on his favorite books of 2019, in LitHub " willingness to question dogma and call out virtue-signaling will infuriate some, but I found her approach affectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary" - Vogue ” - The New York Times Book ReviewĪt a time when nuance of any kind is often dismissed, Daum offers thoughtful takes on hot-button topics. is a critique of feminism’s “fourth wave,” a social media-driven movement articulating not just the rights of women, along with microaggression concepts like “mansplaining,” but also the fuzzier tenets of “intersectionality,” a hitherto hidden matrix of privilege and oppression. Meghan is creating a “heterodox” community for women called The Unspeakeasy. ATTENTION! ALL OF MEGHAN’S STUFF IS NOW ON HER SUBSTACK PAGE.įOR LATEST NEWS ABOUT ANYTHING SHE IS DOING, GO THERE AND BECOME A FREE OR PAID SUBSCRIBER. ![]()
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