Worth listening - the slide into a postliterate age
“It’s hard to be an influencer via a newspaper.” That one line from James Marriott explains more about politics in 2026 than most of the punditry I have heard this year. The New York Times podcast Interesting Times has handed its microphone to a series of guest hosts, and Mary Harrington’s turn is a cracker. She talks with Marriott, a Times of London columnist and author of The New Dark Ages.