E342. The Truth About America's Decline - Alana Newhouse

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Alana Newhouse, the mastermind behind Tablet Magazine, sits down with Bridget for a fascinating dissection of modern media, identity politics, and the resurgence of print in a digital age. They dive into the internet’s shift from a punk-rock playground to a tribal shouting match, discuss the flatness of corporate media, and analyze the quirky rebellion of magazines like Tablet and County Highway. They cover everything from mom brain, to the perils of virality, the death of gatekeepers, why re...

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0:00.0	All right. I'm with Alana Newhouse, everybody. Welcome to Walkins. Welcome.
0:04.0	So good to be here. I've always wanted to talk to you. You just are one of my favorite writers, honestly, in the discourse.
0:10.0	Thank you so much. I'm a little bit of a fan girl. It's mutual. I don't understand what is happening with Tablet.
0:20.0	Are you guys going?
0:21.6	Let's get right into it.
0:23.4	Tablet's also one of my favorite publications.
0:25.6	You guys have put out consistently some of the best pieces in the past decade that I've,
0:32.9	I don't even know how long it's been around, but since I've been aware of it,
0:36.4	your piece about everything
0:38.4	being broken i still read it probably once a quarter and tell everybody that they should read it
0:45.8	we had um oh what was the why am i blanking i have the worst mom brain lately um the the the one about the, gosh, we had them on the podcast to talk about it too.
0:59.0	And I'm just completely blanking about the censorship and like-
1:02.9	Segal.
1:04.1	Yes, thank you.
1:05.2	Yeah, that piece was, I'm assuming he's turning that into a book.
1:09.0	Yeah, he is actually.
1:10.4	Okay.
1:11.2	It felt like a book.
1:12.8	Yeah.
1:14.2	So tell us, how long have you been around?
1:17.8	What's going on?
1:19.4	So Talas, been around for 16 years.
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