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Two Drinks with . . . The New Yorker’s Master Wordsmith
Joe Nocera says Rachel Aviv is the modern-day Tom Wolfe, and he’s not ashamed to have fangirled.
Joe Nocera
Two Drinks With. . . Steve Bannon’s ‘Transhumanist Editor’
The anti-AI activist says he is “proudly” in the tradition of the Satanic Panic—and that it’s everyone’s job to save America from our AI-slop future.
Suzy Weiss
Two Drinks with . . . the Senator Warning Trump That Iran ‘Cannot Be Trusted’
Tim Sheehy knows the threat of terrorism firsthand. He explains why U.S. negotiators must remain skeptical of their Iranian counterparts.
Audrey Fahlberg
Two Drinks with. . . The Trump Adviser Headed to OpenAI
Dean Ball was advising the White House on emerging technology—and this week he took a job at the frontier lab. Of the future, he says: ‘A lot of crazy…
River Page
Two Drinks with. . . Trump’s Tourism Czar
Over Negronis in Washington, D.C., the Australian-born reformed shitposter Nick Adams says that he’s ‘the brand ambassador for the United States, the…
River Page
Two Drinks with . . . the Mom Who Prodded Trump About Childcare
Reshma Saujani went viral for asking Donald Trump how he was going to make childcare cheaper. ‘In this country, we love girls, but we hate women,’ she…
Kara Kennedy
Two Drinks with . . . Ben Shapiro
Sipping a Jerusalem martini in Boca Raton, the Daily Wire founder weighs in on why his company stumbled, firing Candace Owens, and the conspiracy…
Eli Lake
Two Drinks with. . . Patricia Cornwell, the Queen of Forensic Crime Thrillers
At the age of 24, long before she became a famous writer, Cornwell began work on her first book. I talked with her about the mentor whose biography she…
Zac Bissonnette
Two Drinks with. . . Lloyd Blankfein
Drinking coffee from a C-SPAN mug, the former Goldman Sachs boss weighs in on AI, the advantages of disadvantage, Y2K, and the drama at the White House…
Suzy Weiss
Two Drinks with . . . Steak ’n Shake’s Chief MAHA Officer
Cracking open a 12-ounce Liquid Death, Michael Boes tells me he’s making fast food healthy again.
Tanner Nau
Two Drinks with . . . Luke Burgis, a Serious Catholic
Luke Burgis was one of fifteen Christian leaders who Anthropic asked to advise them on making AI moral. He declined—and told me he was freaked out by…
Madeleine Kearns
Two Drinks with . . . a Very Angry Truck Driver
Truck driving is the most common occupation for young men without a degree. Yet, says Gord Magill, today they are forced to contend with shrinking…
River Page
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