Archive - Allen’s Substack

The Modern Mr. Twain

Printing, polemic, and self-invention

Jun 29 •

Journalism and stability in the digital age

Jun 4 •

May 2025

Zuckerberg's Masculine Energy

May 3 •

April 2025

Can Trump Wake the Woke?

Politics and the Performing Arts

Apr 24 •

From Both Sides Now:

Stephen Baskerville asks Who Lost America?

Apr 2 •

March 2025

Wild Irish Eyes

Growing up on Chicago’s South Side in 1920

Mar 16 •

S’not Me, Dad!

Vance, Musk, and the Family

Mar 10 •

February 2025

The boxer and the ballad singer

Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan

Feb 15 •

For the left, the sky is always falling

Feb 1 •

January 2025

Pygmalion, Perfection, and the Work of “My Fair Lady”

Jan 8 •

December 2024

Trump’s Cabinet:

“Angry vets,” social class, and contempt for the military

Dec 28, 2024 •

The wild life of the modern hermit

Dec 4, 2024 •

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