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For Keith Jarrett's 80th Birthday: 10 Key Tracks from His Early Career

Are We Living in a Time of Cultural Collapse?

'The Atlantic' Visits Me at Home, and I Win an Award

Harrison Ford and the Origin of Western Civilization

30 Ways to Revitalize Arts & Culture

How I Got Scammed

Now You Know the Rest of the Story...

Live with Ted Gioia

I Get Into Dogfights on Social Media

Yacht Rock Sails Again!

How I Identify Heroes & Villains in the Music Business

Hollywood Will Be a Ghost Town in Five Years

Today I'm Starting My 5th Year on Substack—But Have I Learned Anything?

Ghosting Spotify: A How-To Guide

How I Learned About Great Literature from Comic Books

Who Are the Real Experts Now?

Is This the Dominant Personality Type of Our Time?

How Many NY Times Journalists Does It Take to Write 500 Words?

I Offer Subversive Opinions

9 Rules for New Technology

40 Observations on Public Discourse

Netflix CEO Mocks Moviegoers: Theaters Are Dead!

How to Discover Mindfulness in a Nazi Solitary Confinement Cell

Here's Why I'm Telling Young Musicians to See the Dylan Biopic

What Happened to the Celebrities?

Two Robots Talk About Me Behind My Back

My 12 Favorite Existential Songs

More Entries from My Private Journal

What's Happening to Students?

The 30 Most Intriguing Musicians of 2025 (Part 1 of 3)

How James Bond Can Fix the Crisis in Masculinity

Is Disney Trying to Sell Star Wars?

I Tamed the YouTube Algorithm...

Why Journalism Is Like Stinky Cheese

If William Shakespeare Came to Hollywood Today...

I'm Recommending These 12 New Recordings

The World Was Flat. Now It's Flattened

We Really Are Entering a New Age of Romanticism

My 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities—The Final Installment!

How to Write

The New Aesthetics of Slop

The Death of Cool

Classical Music Got Invented with a Hard Kick from a Peasant's Foot

The World's Largest Search Engine Doesn't Want You to Search

Do Artists Suffer?

The Music Business is Healthy Again? Really?

How We Lost the Flow

My 6 Rules of Money

How to Achieve Immortality

John Coltrane's Love Is Still Supreme at Age 60

When Louis Armstrong Conquered Chicago

The Culture Scene Is Total Madness

The Branding of Bob Dylan

"The Infrastructure of the Recording Industry Is About to Fail”

What Can Music Do Today?

16 YouTube Videos I'm Watching This Week

Old Media Finally Wakes Up from a Coma

Google Is Now the East India Company of the Internet

In the Music Business, 80 Is the New 20

When Algorithms Come to Your Neighborhood

A Manifesto in Defense of Courtship

My Survey of 16 Classic Works of New Journalism

Get Rich in Your Parent's Basement

Open Mic: Tell Us About Anything You Want

I Share Private Journal Entries

The Parable of Anna Akhmatova

Can You Really Learn the Humanities in 52 Weeks?