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Talking the 'Dark Enlightenment' with John Ganz and Maya Vinokour
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other week, John Ganz (author of W...
Talking Iran and taking questions with John Ganz
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., or, rea...
Talking Anthropic, Iran, and the Department of Defense with John Ganz
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., or, rea...
Is the left "behind" on A.I.?
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., and som...
Talking fascism and the suicide right with John Ganz
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., and som...
Talking Minneapolis, Venezuela, Elon Musk, and speaking 'Trumpanese'
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m. John Gan...
Talking Trump's Reiner comments, Brown shooting misinformation, and white men in media with John Ganz and Jay Kang
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comIn this conversation--joined by Jay Caspian Kang of The New Yorker a...
Talking A.I. bubbles and Trump's racist rant with John Ganz
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., John Ga...
Talking 'American Canto' and Jeffrey Epstein with John Ganz
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comThis week, John and I talked about the journalist Olivia Nuzzi, an e...
Talking Zohran and Kalshi with John Ganz and Jay Kang
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit maxread.substack.comGreetings from Read Max HQ! Every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., John Ga...
The Silicon Valley-Trump bet
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ! This week’s newsletter is a video-slash-podcast-slash-Substack Live with my friend John Ganz. Among the topics discussed...
Steelmanning Peter Thiel
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My friend John Ganz and I reformed our intermittent podcast this week to talk about New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s interview with PayPal fo...
Two deeply upsetting photographs
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ! Today’s post is a Read Max audiovisual product featuring cohost Sam Biddle, senior technology reporter at The Intercept....
Escape from Slopworld
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ! On Tuesday afternoon John Ganz of Unpopular Front joined me for an experimental “Substack Live” with only two brief in...
Which Houthi P.C. Small Group Member are you?
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ! We’re back with another episode of [Untitled Read Max Audio Property]. This week, The Intercept’s Sam Biddle and Read ...
What if "A.I." is just more surveillance?
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ! Today, the first in what I hope will be a regular series with my old friend Sam Biddle, senior technology reporter at the ...
The Silicon Valley canon and malformed publics
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ! This week’s newsletter is a podcast episode with John Ganz of Unpopular Front and Henry Farrell of Programmable Mutter. ...
What the hell is going on with Elon Musk?
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ! A bonus newsletter this week containing a podcast with John Ganz of Unpopular Front and Quinn Slobodian, Professor of Inte...
Elon Musk and our other new DOGE overlords
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ! Today, to round out December before our annual year-end post, a podcast with John Ganz on the ascension of Elon Musk to sh...
Talking with John Ganz about J.D. Vance, Peter Thiel and the tech right
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ! Ongoing request alert: I’m still looking for stories and examples of A.I. slop, wherever you encounter it: On platforms!...
[PODCAST] A guide to the new annoying A.I. influencer guy
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ! Today’s Read Max Experimental Audio Product is a reading of this week’s newsletter, covering:* Who is “Leopold Asche...
[PODCAST] Google's AI Overview fiasco
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ! In today’s experimental audio product:* The Google “AI Overview” fiasco, why it was so funny/depressing, and what it...
[PODCAST] OpenAI's new talking computer and Google's terrible search
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ! In today’s Read Max Experimental Audio Product, I’ll be reading from this week’s newsletter on two items:* A critica...
[PODCAST] Egg Horror A.I. Recipe Videos! Cyberpunk Scam Miami! Bitcoin Freak-Enforced Mandatory 4 Non-Blondes Singalong!
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ! In today’s episode of the Read Max Podcast--an experimental audio product in which I read the text of the newsletter for...
What is A.I.-generated audio good for?
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ, and please, enjoy this, the second episode of the Read Max Experimental Audio Product--a “podcast”-style reading of th...
One weird trick for fixing Hollywood
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ! I’m very pleased to publish this “experimental Read Max audio product,” which is to say a podcast of me reading this...
A.I. and writing: What we won in the strike
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max HQ in rain-soaked Brooklyn, N.Y.! Today, an emergency experiment: a solo podcast. I was prepared to offer a column today on th...
Talking with former Threads editor-in-chief Katie Notopoulos
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from Read Max temporary HQ in Downeast Maine! This week’s newsletter is an experiment: A podcast, featuring my old friend Katie Notopoulos...