HeyJaredNotes on the Stories We Tell
The world as it is and the world as it should be. Writing on politics and power, history and travel, books and the people I meet along the way.
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The Radiance: Finding Meaning in Troubling Times (opens the original)
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What’s happened to America over the last decade escapes the tidy boundaries of political commentary. What we called “the news” feels like a relic from some other place and time, words and pictures that cannot encompass the unraveling around us. That disconnect – between what we feel and what we are told – is isolating, leaving each of us to figure out what is going on by ourselves, unable to trust the stories we’ve been told all our lives.That is where art should enter the void. Yet at the preci
Is Anyone in Control of AI? (opens the original)
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No one is in control.At least that is what we are told. The leaders of AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI tell us only the government can slow them down. The government tells us that the market will determine the pace. The market is inflated like a stretched balloon by the belief that all of this will, somehow, work out. Both industry and government tell us that even if they wanted to stop, they can’t because we’re in a “race” with China.Trillions of dollars are bet on this technology that f
The World of Security (opens the original)
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The first time I wrote about 9/11 I cried.It was a week or two after the attacks. I was a graduate student in creative writing at NYU, not far from Ground Zero. The air was filled with an acrid smell I will never forget, an odor of death and melted plastic. Our workshop was led by a gently probing Black woman with kind eyes named Shay Youngblood and she tasked us with writing something about the attacks. Anything would do. We were, after all, writers. Then we were to read the pieces out loud.I r
Reckoning with War (opens the original)
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Ten years ago this month, Barack Obama paid the first visit to Laos by a sitting American president. The visit carried a heavy weight: the United States turned Laos into the most heavily bombed country in the history of the world during the so-called secret war of the 1960s and 70s, an escalation of the war in Vietnam which was concealed from the American people as a covert action. The bombing was so extensive – more than that of Germany and Japan in World War II combined – that it left behind s
A Culture War Cautionary Tale (opens the original)
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In 2019, I got a DM from Enes Kanter on Twitter complimenting my book The World As It Is. I was not accustomed to getting DMs about my writing from NBA players. I was further intrigued because Kanter had until recently played for the Knicks; he had also publicly criticized Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the increasingly authoritarian leader of his home country Turkey, leading to a public rift with both Erdogan and his own family that carried very real risks.Since Kanter was spending part of the offseason
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