The Agonist is going live!

Tonight at 5pm ET with author and novelist Ross Barkan

Mar 13, 2025

To mark the re-launch of my newsletter, I’m hosting a special livestream tonight with the great

, columnist for New York magazine and author of the Substack “Political Currents.” Ross is one of my favorite writers, and one of the very few who seems incapable of writing a bad piece. Here’s his latest on the case for reading. Subscribe to his substack here.

We’ll be doing it today at 5pm ET. Join us! We’ll be talking about how to make sense of our odd (and increasingly frightening) political moment.

To watch on your computer, you’ll get an email when we go live. Click! To watch on your phone, download the Substack app and make sure to enable notifications. The app will notify you when we’re live. Just tap that, and you’re in. It’s that easy.

Here are some of my other favorite pieces from Ross. If you have a chance, take a look.

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Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Twilight of the Liberal Left

I was struggling to remember what Barack Obama had done since he left the White House. To challenge myself, I decided not to look anything up and truly disgorge whatever images and ideas had been lodged in my memory. There was the jetting around with Richard Branson. There was a podcast of some sort, a Netflix documentary (or documentaries), a chat with…

5 months ago · 1361 likes · 267 comments · Ross Barkan

Political Currents by Ross Barkan

The End of Taylor and Travis

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will be extraordinarily rich until they’re dead. They may keep dating, they may marry, and they may have children. Or, they could break up. Their personal lives, played out so much on the public stage, shouldn’t concern us too much. They deserve happiness, like anyone else…

5 months ago · 89 likes · 2 comments · Ross Barkan

The Agonist is going live!

Tonight at 5pm ET with author and novelist Ross Barkan

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