Archive - The Honest Broker

Did Streaming Subscription Prices Just Hit the Wall?

Consumers have learned three winning strategies for defeating subscription fatigue.

Apr 18 • Ted Gioia

Blues Legend Robert Johnson Like You've Never Heard Him Before

I'm recommending these 12 new YouTube videos

Apr 16 • Ted Gioia

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 • Jared Henderson

1:15:27

The Ten Commandments of the New AI Religion

This is the creepy creed of our time

Apr 9 • Ted Gioia

Tells Us What You're Doing

Today is open mic day at The Honest Broker

Apr 7 • Ted Gioia

How to Read the Great Books in 52 Weeks

A conversation on my humanities reading program

Apr 5 • Ted Gioia

New Music Is Slowly Dying

It's getting murdered by its own caretakers

Apr 2 • Ted Gioia

I'm Recommending 14 New Albums

Here are some of my favorite recordings of 2026 (so far)

Apr 1 • Ted Gioia

March 2026

Everything You Expect Is Missing in 'Project Hail Mary'

And that's for the better

Mar 30 • Ted Gioia

The Story of My Mysterious Pain

I never talked about my pain. But it kept getting worse and worse.

Mar 28 • Ted Gioia

Four Steps to Hell

Can this really be the aesthetic vision of the 21st century?

Mar 26 • Ted Gioia

Montaigne and the Origins of Substack

Self-publishing has a glorious history—but what's coming next is even better

Mar 23 • Ted Gioia

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