Ethan Freedman

My two thoughts on the new season of Nobody Wants This is that it’s incredible how the show has managed to not mention Israel once, and that when Adam Brody said “Jews don’t really go camping” I felt, again, that my experience as an American Jew was not remotely close to being represented here

Reading a non-fiction book that fails at doing actual journalism, from both an interrogative and storytelling perspective — and I think it goes unsaid how many non-fiction books published each year would have been much better off as a mid-length article

Inject this right into my veins, bro From: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...

Truly, are there sweeter words for American democracy than “class consciousness seemed to saturate Nebraska”?

This is unrelated to the current news, but I've always thought I’ve always found the debate about whether Sally Rooney's novels are Marxist because the characters talk about Marxism not the point –– her novels (at the least ones I'm familiar with) explore how people become alienated from each other

This is truly great news – I've been to this corner of Arizona twice, and it's stunning. The first time I went, I stayed the night in a small cabin in a canyon and woke up surrounded by deer, skunk, hummingbirds, and other wildlife. I felt like a Disney princess.

Bro do you even know what Chicago is Do you even understand Can the non-Chicagoan American mind comprehend 26 miles of public lakefront and freshwater

Wading into a minefield here, but I have been disappointed to see that many of the progressive candidates for Chicago school board don’t have anything on their websites about the value and quality of the education students are getting — the whole reason schools exist in the first place!

I think what I chafe against is his combination of deception and reveling in making people squirm. Whatever the stated intention of the work, there's something off-putting and sad about tackling an idea through this smug sort-of laughing down at people who aren't in on the bit.

I have not seen the new Nathan Fielder movie, nor have I watched entire episodes of his shows. But every clip I have seen of this guy feels like mean-spirited pseudo-intellectual content for internet-poisoned nihilists. Yet I read about how his work is, apparently, transcendent. What am I missing?

In what world is “quality of life” in Chicago way worse than in Tampa, OKC, or Orlando?

Idk man I went to Apple Fest, walked around a bit, got a fritter, had a good time. It was crowded but it was just a normal crowded, this has been way overblown

I do feel like if the Penguins want to stake a claim as a dark horse candidate this year they do need to win against the Columbus Blue Jackets

I am standing up as a proud pumpkin beer apologist — going on record to say there is nothing wrong with a delicious brown ale with cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves, and a hint of roasted gourd

One thing most people probably don't understand about science is that there is a researcher for every question –– I was just searching for someone to provide insight on a story I'm writing and found somebody who studies the exact thing I'm writing about, in exactly the same region I'm writing about