Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs

Magazine. Returning to the program today is the esteemed critic. Becca Rothfeld, she is the author of the book.

All things are too small. She is now a staff writer at The New Yorker and an editor at

The Point, having recently been shamefully dismissed as the nonfiction book critic of the

Washington Post. Becca Rothfeld, welcome back to current affairs.

Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here. What an enthusiastic introduction.

I always bring the drama, you know, to the intro.

Because we want to build you up.

Because you are important, and we want people to know.

You're important too.

Thank you.

Listen, what happened?

Washington Post, massive layoffs.

Third of the staff, a huge portion of the staff.

I think people are now speculated closer to a half.

Okay.

Don't quote me on that, but I think that that's like the most recent estimate.

It's a lot of newspaper staff to be let go all at once.

I take it.

Jeff Bezos woke up one day and decided that he wanted to kill the newspaper and because he's the owner, that's his right?

What exactly happened here?

I think that's a great question, and I think that nobody really knows, myself included.

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