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Anthony Fantano on Music, Criticism, and Why Artists Should Unionize
Current Affairs • Nov 26, 2025

Anthony Fantano on Music, Criticism, and Why Artists Should Unionize

Anthony fantano is the biggest music critic on YouTube, and the self-described “internet’s busiest music nerd.” The New York Times calls him “The Only Music Critic Who Matters (if You’re Under 25),” and his show The Needle Drop has over 3 million subscribers. Fantano is known for his provocative takes, like “AI Music is Evil” and “Taylor Swift is a Coward.” He joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson and associate editor Alex Skopic to talk about the state of the music industry, how streaming platforms exploit artists, and whether Zohran Mamdani should rap again. 

"The Epstein Class": Anand Giridharadas on the Elite Network Around the Sexual Predator
Democracy Now • Nov 25, 2025

"The Epstein Class": Anand Giridharadas on the Elite Network Around the Sexual Predator

While much of the recent interest in Jeffrey Epstein has focused on the late sexual predator’s relationship with President Donald Trump, his emails also reveal his close relationships with other powerful figures from the worlds of politics, finance, academia and beyond. The thousands of files released by the House Oversight Committee earlier this month include his correspondence from April 2011 through January 2019, after he was already a registered sex offender for abusing underage girls in Florida. The fact that so many prominent and influential people could ignore those crimes is indicative of their membership in a “borderless network of people who are more loyal to each other” than anything else, says journalist Anand Giridharadas. “He had chosen this particular kind of social network, this American power elite, because he could be sure that it would be able to look away.” Giridharadas is author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World and recently wrote about the Epstein emails for The New York Times opinion section.

It’s One of the Most Influential Social Psychology Studies Ever. Was It All a Lie?
Mother Jones • Nov 25, 2025

It’s One of the Most Influential Social Psychology Studies Ever. Was It All a Lie?

On the night before Christmas in 1954, a Chicago housewife named Dorothy Martin begged her followers to step outside, sing together, and wait, at last, for the aliens.  Things hadn’t been going well for Martin, the leader of a small UFO-based religious movement usually known as the Seekers. She had previously told her followers that, […]

Enshittification Nation
Lever News • Nov 25, 2025

Enshittification Nation

Author and activist Cory Doctorow has a grand unifying theory of why everything sucks now — and how to fix it.

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The Majority Report • Nov 24, 2025

Zohran's Masterful Meeting; Trump's Plan To Make Air Travel Worse | MR Live

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