Andy Horwitz

writer, thinker, critic, curator, cultural producer. Founder @culturebot

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

Just watched this film. See it if you can!

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

Christian Nationalism is dangerous. This essay explores the major strands of the movement, & the ideological foundations framing this “spiritual war”#christiannationalism #election2024 https://t.co/azqcX7pSD6

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

@AlexEdelman It's BS. Junk Science is also Junk History. https://t.co/eBbP9S3mk1

[Open Secrets Magazine @OpenSecretsMag]

“I was shocked, surprised, and thrilled to see a story that, at long last, seemed to actually represent my confused experience of sex and sexuality.” @amhinla on the impact of watching @Netflix’s Baby Reindeer at midlife: https://t.co/SiOYIhdYcA

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

Proud to have been a part of this project!

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

City Hall celebrated the end of #BlackHistoryMonth with an artist reception honoring the Cultural Treasures of South LA.

Thank you to the creatives that use art to preserve our history. Huge thanks to @Culture_LA for assembling an exhibit that highlights South Los Angeles.

[Jules @julesterpak]

This video from @TaylorLorenz about the potential collapse of journalism is deeply important. Especially over the past 48 hours

“I don’t think people understand how bad the world would be without journalists”

“I don’t want to live in a world where all of the news is delivered through 60-second videos with retention editing”

“The rise of citizen journalism on apps like TikTok and elsewhere has overwhelmingly been a positive thing. … but there’s a ton of really talented journalists that are also just not great social media people”

“Some journalists do really deep investigations or local reporting or sit through hour-long city council meetings to hold some local politician to account… and that’s really important work. And it’s work that somebody should pay for and it’s work that’s not rewarded by these social media algorithms”

“It’s really hard to amass a subscriber base and then maintain that subscriber base over time when you’re doing investigative work. And that’s if you don’t get sued out of existence after you publish the first critical story of a billionaire”

“Journalism is something a lot of people won’t realize they miss until it’s gone”

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

Last April I wrote an essay called “Talkin’ Crunchy Granola Far-Right Lefty Blues” that touches on the hippie/QAnon connection. Listening to @marcmaron talk to @ThePaulGiamatti made me think about how this essay gets more relevant daily.
https://t.co/IB45EwTRA1

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

@nytopinion @ParkerTRichards Yes! More inefficiency please.
https://t.co/kel3d9wwN2

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

@NCookBouton Fascinating and unnerving! Have you read this paper on "Qanon, authoritarianism, and conspiracy within American alternative spiritual spaces”? May be complementary to your research. https://t.co/I9VxmQet73

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

Thank you ⁦@zinoman⁩ for this thoughtful unpacking of a complicated issue. I didn’t understand the context before. Very helpful. via @NYTimes https://t.co/mzH1V3FQlW

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

Of course he embellishes! That’s the whole art part of comedy. That’s how jokes are made. The attack of the Self righteous killjoys! “Whoopi Goldberg Defends Hasan Minhaj's Right to Embellish Stand-Up Stories” https://t.co/Q2JQlv61WG

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

Thank you @diariesofnote for sharing my 9/11 story.

[Diaries of Note @diariesofnote]

"I was just turning on my computer when we heard this enormous explosion. No-one could tell what it was. Someone looked out the window and saw a gaping hole in the side of the WTC with black smoke billowing out."

On this day in 2001: https://t.co/jNBTjp6lxr

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

Tune in to @StrawdogTheatre's Thank You Five! on YouTube this Wednesday at 9 pm CST for a conversation with me, Lydia Milman Schmidt, @Tlaloc Lopez Waterman and host Hank Boland talking about theater and stuff! https://t.co/d54ygU1Avi

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

Thank you ⁦@Will_Bunch⁩ for saying this out loud. Indeed, “journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America”. We need more people to call it what it is. And loudly. https://t.co/hvHRuCe7Yb

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

Whoa.

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

Oh okay one more alarmist post. Read This essay I wrote in April exploring the echoes of 60s counterculture in today’s far right counterculture. There’s still more to explore about the radical right youth culture’s rhetorical tactics/humor & the 60s.

https://t.co/IB45EwTjKt

[Andy Horwitz @amhinla]

And now for something completely different: fresh tomatoes!