Matt Pearce

An unsentimental education

Organizing the unaligned and their theories of inequality.

Dec 15 • Matt Pearce

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My brilliant nemesis

Elena Ferrante and the reach of novelists in the 21st century.

Dec 7 • Matt Pearce

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November 2025

Joan Didion's "Democracy" and the cliches of political life

Don’t be boring. Unless you don’t want anything to change.

Nov 30 • Matt Pearce

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The ecstasies of betrayal

Olivia Nuzzi, Ryan Lizza, and the literature of treachery.

Nov 23 • Matt Pearce

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Baseball and the free city

The beauty of the Dodgers and Los Angeles' ungovernability.

Nov 2 • Matt Pearce

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October 2025

Zones of freedom

On journalism and digital sovereignty; Thomas Pynchon's "Vineland."

Oct 26 • Matt Pearce

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Writers and their underworlds

On Don DeLillo's "Underworld."

Oct 19 • Matt Pearce

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The measure of a writer

Kaleb Horton and the remembering machine; Ezra Klein versus Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Oct 12 • Matt Pearce

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September 2025

The last magazine writer

What left with Kaleb Horton.

Sep 27 • Matt Pearce

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The pointlessness of censoring Jimmy Kimmel

A power struggle over the final days of the public square.

Sep 22 • Matt Pearce

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Notes from the underculture

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Sep 14 • Matt Pearce

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Google: Too small to break up, too big to fail

The search godzilla's antitrust non-event.

Sep 7 • Matt Pearce

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