Writer: NYT, The Atlantic, WaPo, New York, Outside, New Republic + more. Author of "The Opt Outers" newsletter on Substack. Former CNN correspondent.
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When I was at California Boys State with Stephen Miller in high school, his campaign slogan was literally, "It's Miller Time!"
He won the election.
Stephen Miller's road to the White House started in high school
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This photo from Election Night in Boone, North Carolina, is a modern Norman Rockwell painting
📸 Credit: Noah Williford, @TheAppalachian
North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx on Election Night as results show things might not be going as planned...
Another banger of a photo from an @appstate student journalist.
📸 Credit: Noah Williford, @TheAppalachian
Noah Williford's fine photography here. He's a student of mine! noahwillifordphotography.myp…
I walked so @jaketapper could run
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Thrilled to announce our FIRST SPEAKER for the 2026 @MenSymposium, @BetsyDeVos, who will join @Moody for an on-stage discussion about adolescent boyhood and addressing the boy gap in education.
Symposium will take place Sept. 24 & 25 in DC. More speakers announced soon!
A little media advice for anyone who needs to hear it...
Remember, you never want to be the August story.
If you're the August story, you've already lost.
I spent a week with people who have unlocked the secret to getting paid to travel full-time. They’re starting businesses out of RV’s and vans.
Meet America’s “RV Entrepreneurs.”
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I gave up streaming for a year.
Then never went back. Here's what we do instead.
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Cal Newport and I spoke about how our family has been living in a log cabin without the Internet in our home for the past 3 years
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More thoughts on living without the Internet in "The Opt Outers" theoptouters.substack.com/p/…
Hard recommend. One of the most beautiful memoirs ever written about the relationship between fathers and sons.
In addition to my Odyssey translation, there’s my 2017 memoir about how my late dad Jay decided, aged 81, to sit in on my freshman #Odyssey course at @BardCollege :
danielmendelsohn.com/books/a…
In @TheAtlantic , I make a personal case for reading the classics to your kids out loud, even the young ones.
“The Odyssey” is not, strictly speaking, a children’s book. But @Moody decided to try reading it to his 3-year old son anyway. He reflects on how his toddler has come to appreciate the great yarn: theatlantic.com/family/2026/…
Chris Moody retweeted
“The Odyssey” is not, strictly speaking, a children’s book. But @Moody decided to try reading it to his 3-year old son anyway. He reflects on how his toddler has come to appreciate the great yarn: theatlantic.com/family/2026/…
Chris Moody retweeted
I love this. At a time when childhood literacy rates are in free fall, @moody decided to read "The Odyssey," with some light censoring, to his 3-year-old son. theatlantic.com/family/2026/…
