Dorian Lynskey
Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
- I just reread a Ta-Nehisi Coates piece from 2018 where he addresses the claim that Trump is too incoherent to have an ideology and responds, no, he clearly has an ideology and it’s white nationalism. It’s only got clearer since then yet some people still insist otherwise
- I spoke to George Saunders about empathy, denial, transcendence, reckoning with the Trump administration and not wanting to be a moral avatar. I recommend subscribing to the Nerve's weekly newsletter for as little as zero pounds
- George Saunders, whose new novel imagines the last hours of an oil tycoon, is struggling to reconcile empathy with opposition in a riven America. He talks to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social about Trump, truth and the joy of reading www.thenerve.news/p/george-sau...
- This is good. "Perhaps Goodwin was always like this… Or perhaps he… was gradually radicalised by the thing he was studying. Who knows? Who cares? Life is short and we must not squander it wandering in the psychological wastelands of deeply average people." iandunt.substack.com/p/matt-goodw...
