Robert Wright

4 weeks ago | nonzero.org | Connor Echols |Robert Wright |Danny Fenster

Note: In June, the newsletter will be doing what it did last June: take a month off for retooling. Like last time, NonZero members (more crassly known as paid subscribers) will get a bonus month—and, also like last time, our podcasts will continue, complete with their members-only Overtime segments. Plus: On Thursday, June 12, at 8 pm US Eastern Time, I’ll do a Q&A Zoom call with members, discussing plans for future NZN media empire conquests and perhaps touching on the state of the world.

1 month ago | nonzero.org | Connor Echols |Robert Wright |Danny Fenster

—The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced that it will end its decades-long insurgency against the Turkish government, bringing “hope of regional stability” in the Middle East, Reuters reports. The decision, overshadowed by President Trump’s visit to the region, removes a flashpoint in Turkey’s relationship with Iraq, where PKK fighters have long hidden out in mountain bases.

1 month ago | nonzero.org | Connor Echols |Robert Wright |Danny Fenster

Welcome to issue #2 of the revamped Earthling! The idea is to give you more items than before, in shorter and more digestible form, and to accomplish several things in the process: review some of the week’s biggest developments, often with Earthlingesque context that you wouldn’t find in other media outlets; call your attention to less noted but (by Earthling lights) notable things; occasionally just have some fun.

1 month ago | nonzero.org | Robert Wright |Connor Echols

Welcome to the new, revamped Earthling! Before I explain what’s changed about it, here’s what stays constant: The Earthling will still be the weekend edition of the NonZero Newsletter, and will still feature a mixture of the week’s news and analysis. What it won’t feature is the old Earthling’s mixture of journalistic genres; we won’t have a few short, snack-sized items, followed by a longish main course, followed by some side orders.

2 months ago | nonzero.org | Robert Wright |Connor Echols

Note: Next Friday we’ll unveil a new, crisper format for the Earthling and will outline some accompanying changes in the overall NZN content flow. And next Thursday (May 1—save the date!) at 8 pm US Eastern Time I’ll do a Zoom call with paid subscribers to talk about the fate of humankind and anything else I’m asked about (including those Earthling/NZN changes).