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Derek Thompson

Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.

1 book on the record · 10 Feb 2026 – 10 Feb 2026

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson

Battle Cry of Freedom is a relentlessly compelling history of the antebellum years followed by a cinematic history of the Civil War.

on derekthompson.org · 10 Feb 2026

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.