Virginia Heffernan

What happened to Steven Pinker? I only felt free to write this because he blocks me: www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...

Groypers, gopniks, and the Kirk-Fuentes beef. The American right is one nutty hospital. Me @newrepublic : newrepublic.com/article/2004...

We're not just trying for harm reduction anymore. There's a future now. open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

UCLA, you're stronger than you think. You have more cards. You'll outlive this. We all will. Hold the line. The Big Ten Rises Up Against Trump newrepublic.com/article/1983... via @newrepublic.com

Of the excellent modifications of cliches that people come up with, "in a similar vein" always cracks me up

Nice big October discount, 30% off, to subscribe to Magic + Loss. Politics and tech for English majors. Read & discuss Melania, Steven Pinker, the AI apocalypse, Andrew Tate. And some good things too. virginiaheffernan.substack.com/subscribe?co...

As if the diesel class needed more reason to turn on Trump, he's now praising China at the expense of CANADA. Idiocy. I spoke to @gregsargent.bsky.social for TNR's Daily Blast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Fat Man, Little Boy, Cosy Bear, Fancy Bear, Hugging Face

So it turns out billionaires really just want to be philosophers. This summer Andreesen & Hassabis used a philosophical insight I published in Foreign Policy in 2023. No credit. Boohoo. virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/part-i-bil...

A fantastic piece by a writer I deeply admire. EA is complex so he's pseudonymous here. thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

I guess I’m happy to see Marc Andreesen, who’s alas not much of a thinker, quoting my Foreign Policy piece about how microchips turn sand into thoughts. Unsurprisingly he didn’t mention my name or the citation, so here it is: virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/microchips...

What I still like abt Bluesky & formerly Twitter, after all this time, is that they teem w/people who are damn interested in this world. This affront, that news event, this controversy, that idiot. Why is everyone so interested? I try to answer this: virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/people-of-...

Grammar innovation has created an inefficiency in this market

Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Could Teach Trump a Thing or Two About the Law newrepublic.com/article/2152... via @newrepublic.com