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The Honest Broker's 20 Most Popular Articles From 2024

In 2025, Your Boss Will Launch a Podcast

The 25 Best Online Articles of 2024

When Bad People Make Good Art

The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed

Mainstream Is Now Fringe, and Fringe Is Mainstream

Why Gregory Bateson Matters

I've Been Watching These 17 YouTube Videos

Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls?

10 Great Vince Guaraldi Tracks NOT from Charlie Brown TV Shows

Dana Gioia on Stephen Sondheim

Why Are Huge Tech Companies Getting Into the Book Business?

The 100 Best Recordings of 2024 (Part 2 of 2)

The 100 Best Recordings of 2024 (Part 1 of 2)

I Say Forbidden Things About Sports

I Give the Worst Writing Advice in the World

Power Is Shifting Rapidly to Indie Creators

My Search for Hidden Meanings in Beatles Songs

Open Mic Day: Tells Us About Your Favorite Movies, Music, Books, Etc. of 2024

Strange and Dazzling Things Are Happening Right Now

15 Observations on the New Phase in Cultural Conflict

The 6 New Rules of Communicating

Cruising for Classical Music in LA

The War Against Indie Creators Is Now Getting Dirty

Why Is the Tesla Cybertruck So Depressingly Ugly?

Is There a Crisis of Seriousness?

My New Favorite Music Genre Is Polish Noir

Why Streaming Subscription Prices Will Continue to Rise

What's the Most Profitable Movie of the Year? (No, I Won't Watch It.)

My 10 Favorite Paul McCartney Post-Beatles Musical Moments

How Virtual Reality Died

What You Can Learn from Just Seven Pages by Hannah Arendt

Is Hollywood Ready for 2,000 New Competitors?

Should We Get Angry When Artists Sell Out?

Is This the Worst Month Ever for Legacy Media?

My Year of Tech and Relaxation

Am I Wrong About the Live Music Resurgence?

Nine Predictions for the Future of the Music Business

8 Ways of Connecting a Smartphone Can't Deliver

The New Culture War Is Real Vs. Bogus

Terry Gibbs Celebrates His 100th Birthday—but Why Isn't He a NEA Jazz Master?

Are Visionary Artists Just Mentally Ill?

The Decline of the Novel

The Most Mysterious Band in Music Today

How Do You Celebrate Truman Capote's 100th Birthday?

How Did Pop Culture Get So Gloomy?

A 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities (Continued)

My Secret Life as a Social Media Coach

Where Do Music Genres Come From?

What's Happening to Entertainment?

Are We Now Living in a Parasite Culture?

The Dying Singer Who Cured Himself with Music

Where Did All the Book Readers Go?

8 Questions for... Ted Gioia

Tell Us What You're Doing?

Eleven Predictions: Here's What AI Does Next

Did Frank Sinatra Really Perform at My Grandma's High School?

Ten New Albums I'm Recommending Now

How to Read Greek Tragedy in a Netflix World

Google Thinks Beethoven Looks Like Mr. Bean

My Alternative Tech Canon: 26 Mind-Expanding Books

Fela Kuti in Prison

Live Music Is Coming Back!

The Hottest Trend in Romance Is "Just Talking"

Doctors Raise a Patient from a Deathlike State with Electronic Music

10 Reasons Why Technological Progress Is Now Reversing

How to Live a Good Life (According to Aristotle)

Tell Us About Your Worst (or Best) Day Gig

The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass

12 YouTube Videos I'm Enjoying Right Now

The Death of the Magazine

Nine Observations on the Avant-Garde

Expect Heavy Turbulence for the Next 5 Months

How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop

Who Was Kid Bailey?

52 Reasons to Fear that Technological Progress Is Reversing

A 2000-Year-Old Argument Over the Flute Is the Most Important Thing in Our Culture Right Now

When the Olympics Gave Medals to Artists

The Slow, Painful Death of the SoCal Entertainment Ecosystem

Do Drummers Live Longer?

Why Love Songs Are Badass

Nine New Albums I'm Loving Right Now

"I Told Three Big Lies That Changed My Life"

The Best Books of the 21st Century

Tell Us About the Person Who Inspires You Most

How to Read Plato

A 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities

He Might Have Been the First Jazz Star...

How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult?

6 Pop Culture Figures Who Inspire Me

How Secret Practices of Magical Musicians Survived Into the Modern World

How the Music Business Can Tame the Dangerous AI Dragon

Are You Ready for Avant-Garde Dining?

How Does Our Sense of Humor Change With Age? A Statistical Analysis

How Picasso Turned Me into a Strategy Consultant

What's the Greatest Live Music Event You Ever Saw?

The Banishment of Beauty from Everyday Life

The Strangest Hit Songwriter in History

Is Silicon Valley Building Universe 25?

Ten New Albums I'm Enjoying Right Now

Crisis in the Culture: An Update

The 6 Laws of Dying Hollywood Franchises

CEOs Go to War Against Creatives

How I Write

The Most Powerful Sound in the World Is Just One Syllable

Twelve Albums for Immersive Listening

Let's Just Admit it: The Algorithms Are Broken

Stupidity: A Reading List

Here Are 52 of My Favorite Quotes

Here's a Map to 'The Honest Broker'

I Do My First Video Interview in More Than a Year

Why Creatives Will Win by Thinking Small

Your Brain on Art

Nine New Albums I'm Recommending Right Now

All Bad Music Will Eventually Disappear

How Coffee Became a Joke

It's Open Mic Day—Talk About Anything You Want

The Culture is Changing at Warp Speed

30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok

Western Music Isn't What You Think

"The Movie Business is Over"

No one buys books

What Is Really Inside the Briefcase in 'Pulp Fiction'?

How We Became a Techno-Optimist Family

30 Ways to Revitalize Arts & Culture

The Rise of the Anonymous Music Star

The Rise and Fall of The Village Voice

A Dozen YouTube Videos I'm Enjoying Right Now

I Receive a Letter from a High School Student

In Search of Dupree Bolton (Part 2 of 2)

I Don't Give Investment Advice, but...

The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College

Open Mic Discussion: How Do You Deal with Disabilities that Put Your Vocation at Risk?

12 Things I Learned from René Girard

My 60 Favorite Nonesuch Albums (Part 3 of 3)

They Praised AI at SXSW—and the Audience Started Booing

I Had to Say Something at My Son's Wedding

Where Did TikTok Come From?

Is Honest Writing the Next New Thing in Journalism?

How Miles Davis Hired John Coltrane

9 New Albums I'm Recommending Right Now

How to Break Free from Dopamine Culture

A Failed Rock Adaption of Dune Might Have Starred Mick Jagger, Orson Welles & Salvador Dalí (with Music by Pink Floyd)

20 Things They Don't Teach in Music School

Why I Don't Read Reddit

13 Observations on Ritual

My 60 Favorite Nonesuch Albums (Part 2 of 3)

Help!—AI Is Stealing My Readers

The State of the Culture, 2024

My 60 Favorite Nonesuch Albums (Part 1 of 3)

How to Survive as the Only Opera Fan in Elementary School

It's Open Mic Day: Tell Us What You're Doing

"This Is a Hell of a Statement I'm About to Make—But He Superseded Miles"

How to Tell If You're Living in a Binary Crisis

In Search of Dupree Bolton

My Rule of the 6 Spheres

Nine Ugly Truths about Copyright

How We Lost the Ability to Listen

Healing with a Tin Whistle

12 Recent Studies Reveal the Life-Changing Power of Rhythm

I Ask Seven Heretical Questions About Progress

Why Are Folkloric Narrative Songs Everywhere—from Video Games to Taylor Swift Concerts?

Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing?

Open Mic: What Should I Write About?

How to Review a Creepy Book

What Happened to My Search Engine?

A Look at Bill Evans's 15-Year-Old Pianist Grandson

My 50 Favorite Albums from the Golden Age of Capitol Records (Part 3 of 3)

What Happened to Sly Stone?

Are Harvard Graduates Better Than Harvard Dropouts?

Is 2024 the Year When Writers Fight Back?