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A writer’s notebook venturing into essays, dispatches, and reflections on reading, always returning to the defense of attention, judgment, and a human perspective that is independent of the algorithm and the vitriol of the digital public square.

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About Thomas Chatterton Williams

I'm a staff writer at The Atlantic, a professor of humanities at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, and a visiting fellow at AEI. I've written three books: Losing My Cool, Self-Portrait in Black and White, and Summer of Our Discontent.