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Greetings from Read Max HQ! Every other week, John Ganz (author of When the Clock Broke and proprietor of the Unpopular Front Substack) and I try to host a live chat for subscribers about politics, tech, culture, and the pieces we’ve been working on.

Last week, we were thrilled to do our live chat at the Villa Albertine in New York City, on the occasion …