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Jon Skolnik

Brooklyn, New York

Associate Editor at Vanity Fair

editing @vanityfair • politics, tech, and business pitches: [email protected]

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Articles

  • Donald Trump, Silicon Valley, and the Neoliberal Roots of an Unlikely Alliance

    1 week ago | vanityfair.com | Jon Skolnik

    The story everyone’s heard about the Cold War is that capitalism won out. The fall of the Berlin Wall, it goes, extinguished the last embers of communism, while the flames of neoliberalism blazed on. But that’s not the story that all neoliberals actually believed, according to Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, a rousing relitigation of the 1990s’ ideological scorecard.

  • Elon Musk and Donald Trump Are Finally (Maybe) Breaking Up

    2 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Jon Skolnik

    When protesters converged this past weekend across America, they seized on two central villains: Donald Trump and Elon Musk. On this episode, host and Vanity Fair editor in chief Radhika Jones, along with executive editor Claire Howorth and Hive editor Michael Calderone, discuss how perceptions of Musk have radically shifted from rocket-building billionaire to government hatchet man and right-wing troll.

  • The Femininomenon: Decoding Feminine Energy in the Trump Era

    4 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Jon Skolnik

    As “masculine energy” pulses through the manosphere, it’s time to take a look at the women of the right, from Fox News–friendly Trump officials to Gen Z YouTube talkers to Nap Dress–clad lifestyle influencers.

  • Win Some, Newsom: Gavin’s Risky Podcast Gambit

    1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Jon Skolnik

    Gavin Newsom is taking time away from running the world’s fifth-largest economy to…talk to Steve Bannon? On this episode, host Radhika Jones, alongside Claire Howorth and Michael Calderone, discusses the California governor’s outreach to right-wingers through his new podcast, This Is Gavin Newsom, and whether he’s effectively countering the MAGA media machine.

  • Amy Coney Barrett’s Week in Liberal Wonderland

    1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Jon Skolnik

    Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett, once a Roe-killing conservative darling, recently triggered the Trump faithful by seeming to give a post-speech side-eye and ruling against the president who appointed her.

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Jon Skolnik
Jon Skolnik @jonsskolnik
11 Apr 25

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Jon Skolnik
Jon Skolnik @jonsskolnik
11 Apr 25

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10 Apr 25

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