Peter Birkenhead
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Peter Birkenhead
@pbirk.bsky.social
Writer, teacher. Former actor.

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All for one and one for all.
A million times this.
August 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
New from me on Substack.

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August 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We have appended an Editor’s Note to our story about President Kennedy, who was declared dead from bullet wounds in Dallas, Texas. After publication, the Times learned that he also had a preexisting back condition.
July 30, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hillary’s “deplorable” statement was made in the context of an argument that most Trump voters were good people deserving of empathy. Yet it ignited a firestorm of negative coverage by the NYT, which pounded on the issue for weeks, permanently branding Clinton as a hater of the white working class.
July 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Bean is screaming.
June 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
June 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
And it’s wild how SO much of this piece contradicts its premise. Passage after passage adds up to : “yeah boys are still way ahead in every area that counts but I don’t know, things feel icky.”
May 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This lady is all of us.
April 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
March 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Treated them what now?
February 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM

On Carter and the Great Inflection.

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January 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
January 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
January 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
My grandmother was a source of constant light in the darkness. I inherited her menorah.
January 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM