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Greetings from Read Max HQ! We’re back with another episode of [Untitled Read Max Audio Property]. This week, The Intercept’s Sam Biddle and Read Max’s Max Read discuss: * The hottest group chat in the galaxy: “Houthi PC small group.” What is the worst thing about this chat? What were the discussions with The Atlantic’s lawyers like? Is Sam more of a Michael Waltz or a J.D. Vance? * The “Abundance Agenda”: What distinguishes the program articulated in Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book from the techno-optimism of Marc Andreessen? What can we salvage from the idea of “abundance”? Which was the best arcology in Sim City 2000? A brief reminder: This podcast and the associated newsletter are 99.99 percent funded by the generous support of paying Read Max subscribers. If you’re enjoying the audio or textual products offered by Read Max, please consider upgrading to subscribe. For the price of roughly one beer a month, you’ll get access to the weekly paywalled “Recommendations” newsletter, plus the smug satisfaction of knowing you’re subsidizing the freeloaders who are increasing their I.Q. weekly by consuming Read Max. Articles discussed in the podcast * “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans,” Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic * “Am I the J.D. Vance of My Group Chat?,” Katie Notopoulos, Business Insider * “The Abundance Agenda: A Review,” Matt Breunig, People’s Policy Project * “The Abundance Doctrine,” Mike Konczal, Democracy * “I Want to Believe in Abundance,” Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg
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Greetings from Read Max HQ! For this week’s edition of my intermittment podcast with John Ganz (author of When the Clock Broke and proprietor of the Unpopular Front Substack) we were pleased to host Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, authors of the new book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, an exploration of Elon Musk’s ideology (such as it is) and power through the system of production and accumulation he seems intent on inaugurating. I highly recommend the book, which you can purchase here; we also discussed, among other things: * this excellent essay on Muskism and Fordism from Quinn and Ben at the Law and Political Economy blog; * Musk’s relationship to apartheid South Africa; * some interesting objections to the Muskism thesis; * how Neon Genesis: Evangelion can help us explain and understand Elon Musk. This one is free for all to listen--enjoy!--but if you find it enlightening or entertaining, please consider paying to subscribe. Only with the support of paying subscribers can I put in all the work it takes to be an independent critic and journalist--to read, research, write, edit, record, etc. etc. If you value that work, consider paying about the price of one beer a month ($5) to help it continue.
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