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Did Streaming Subscription Prices Just Hit the Wall?
Consumers have learned three winning strategies for defeating subscription fatigue.
Apr 18
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Blues Legend Robert Johnson Like You've Never Heard Him Before
I'm recommending these 12 new YouTube videos
Apr 16
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How to Be a Serious Reader
Henry Oliver on developing literary taste in an age of TV binge-watching and dumbed-down mass culture
Apr 13
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The Ten Commandments of the New AI Religion
This is the creepy creed of our time
Apr 9
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Tells Us What You're Doing
Today is open mic day at The Honest Broker
Apr 7
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How to Read the Great Books in 52 Weeks
A conversation on my humanities reading program
Apr 5
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Ted Gioia
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New Music Is Slowly Dying
It's getting murdered by its own caretakers
Apr 2
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I'm Recommending 14 New Albums
Here are some of my favorite recordings of 2026 (so far)
Apr 1
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March 2026
Everything You Expect Is Missing in 'Project Hail Mary'
And that's for the better
Mar 30
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Ted Gioia
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The Story of My Mysterious Pain
I never talked about my pain. But it kept getting worse and worse.
Mar 28
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Four Steps to Hell
Can this really be the aesthetic vision of the 21st century?
Mar 26
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Ted Gioia
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Montaigne and the Origins of Substack
Self-publishing has a glorious history—but what's coming next is even better
Mar 23
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Ted Gioia
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