Derek Thompson
Staff writer at The Atlantic. Host of Plain English podcast. Books.
- I went to an acting camp between junior and senior year. We did a talk back with Richard Kind after a show in Chicago. "Ppl tell you 'Be an actor only if you can't do anything else,'" he said. "They're wrong." Dramatic pause. "Never be an actor. Even if you can't do anything else for shit: don't."
- i'm upset and offended that no one in my life cared about me enough to bring it to my attention that the new yorker published a new profile of richard kind yesterday www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
- By targeting academics, embracing nostalgia economics, purging society of opposition ideology, rationing toys, and demolishing our global reputation at the moment we need scale, Trump has responded to the threat of China by mimicking the ghost of its Maoist past. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
