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March 1, 2026

Good riddance to the Washington Post?

The Washington Post has been a DC institution for 149 years, but is it time to say goodbye? Since Jeff Bezos took over, WaPo has seen the suspension of presidential endorsements, a "strategic pivot" on its opinion pages, and the shuttering of sports, metro, daily podcast, and book coverage.

Whoops! Correction:

Jim mistakenly confused Citrini Research (the firm behind the viral 7,000-word "2028 Global Intelligence Crisis" report) and Robert Citron (the treasurer who bankrupted Orange County in 1994). Both rocked Wall Street, but in different decades. It’s a case of confusing oranges with oranges.

Here's the doomy, gloomy report: https://www.google.com/search?q=citriniresearch.substack.com

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In the 1960s, there was a clear counterculture to the political upheavals of the time, led largely by music, but also by key novels such as “Catch-22” and “Slaughterhouse-5,” despite being written by representatives from an older generation who had fought in, and were writing about, World War Two. There was a clearer generational divide, stemming largely from the fact that the older generation was ordering the younger one to fight and die in a war few believed in or even understood. But where is the counterculture now? Are there just too many fires to put out at once? What art is addressing our dire moment? Where is our Woodstock, our Gimme Shelter? Are the Boomers the last generation to really commit to protest? We’re seeing younger generations everywhere else in the world protesting, but not in the US.

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What is a “national treasure”?

In the UK there’s wide consensus about who are the nation’s living “treasures” — people like David Attenborough, Judi Dench, Paul McCartney and Elton John. One benchmark is to be a senior citizen with a large body of work behind you. But another is to be largely above politics. In the US where everything has become politicized under Trump, can there be any “national treasures?”

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