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A Message from Preet

2025/5/12
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@Preet : 我很高兴地宣布 Stay Tuned 正在扩展到 Substack 平台。在这个关键时刻,保持知情非常重要。我们希望在 Substack 上提供一种不同的体验,即提供实质内容,避免愤怒和恐惧,保持冷静的视角。我计划在本周与一些聪明人进行直播对话,包括 Joyce Vance、Heather Cox Richardson、Joanne Freeman、Pete Buttigieg 和 Steve Vladek。我们还将刊登 Erwin Chemerinsky 和 Nita Farahani 的文章。我邀请大家下载 Substack 应用程序并订阅 Stay Tuned,参与我们的社群互动。我创建 Stay Tuned 播客的初衷是渴望了解新闻,但现在越来越难区分真伪。因此,我们希望创建一个平台,让实际参与者能够发声,进行深思熟虑的讨论。我强调,深思熟虑意味着考虑相反的观点,并为自己的观点提供合理的依据。我们不会煽动愤怒,因为那既没有说服力,也不能团结人心。Substack 将呈现一种深思熟虑的、进步的思考方式,尊重读者的智慧和不同意者的诚意。我们欢迎所有深思熟虑的反馈,无论是积极的还是消极的。我理解许多人因为政治现状而感到疲惫,不想再关注新闻,因为新闻充斥着夸张、党派偏见和虚假信息。但在关键时刻,我们不能放弃,要坚持关注。

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Hey folks, Preet here. I have some exciting news to share. Stay Tuned is now on Substack, a platform for writers and creators to reach and engage with audiences directly. As I'll explain in a minute, there has been no time more critical than right now to stay informed. As you well know by now, though, we like to do things a bit differently here. Substance without the rage, clarity without the fear-mongering, calm at the eye of the storm. That's what we're hoping to do more of on Substack.

Over the course of this week, I'll be holding a series of live conversations on Substack with some of the smartest people I know, starting this evening with my Insider Podcast co-host and former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance. Later this week, I'll be speaking with Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman, Pete Buttigieg, and Steve Vladek. You'll also be hearing from some of our distinguished contributors, folks who've been with us for a while, and also some new voices.

This week, we'll be featuring articles from First Amendment scholar Erwin Chemerinsky and legal ethicist Nita Farahani, in addition to our regular Friday piece from Ellie Honig. So if you haven't already, be sure to download the Substack app and create an account and subscribe to At Stay Tuned. You can also find us at staytuned.substack.com.

Sign up to access new content, upcoming live events, and the chat, which I suspect this very special Stay Tuned community will sustain with lively and smart conversation. Now, a brief note from me explaining our decision to come to Substack and why we hope you'll join us there. As always, stay tuned. I was the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, appointed by President Obama in 2009, a position I held till 2017 when I was abruptly fired by President Trump.

Out of a job, but more eager than ever to follow the news, I started a podcast called Stay Tuned with Preet, which I've been hosting for over seven years. Now, we're coming to Substack, and whether you've been with us for a long time or you're new, I hope you'll join us. Here's why. Today, more people than ever can share their thoughts about everything taking place around them. That's mostly a good thing.

But people can voice not just their opinions, but also their biases and whims, with fewer barriers to entry than ever before. And it's getting harder to separate the wheat from the chaff. When everyone is speaking, no matter how much we think democratization is a net social good, it can sound like a tower of babble. One reason we started the Stay Tuned and Insider podcasts was to create a platform for people who are not just spectators, but actual players in their fields—

We had in mind then and now a vision for the proper tone of our discourse. That is, above all, to be thoughtful. Amidst all the decrying of bias and ignorance and tribalism, I put the rise of thoughtlessness at the top of my list of vices in the delivery of news and the provision of opinions. Personally, I can value the merit in anyone's opinion, and I can gain insight even through disagreement. But a prerequisite is believing in the essential thoughtfulness of the speaker.

By thoughtfulness, I mean, among other things, demonstrating that you have done precisely that, thought about the issue on which you're blithely opining, that you've taken into account contrary positions, and in doing so, hopefully refined your own, that you've conceded points when warranted, and given legitimate bases for your opinions, not just the conclusory statements too often provided for shock value and viral traction. This substack will not traffic in rage.

because rage-baiting is neither persuasive, nor unifying, nor effective. Our writers will be passionate about their ideas, but will not let that passion overwhelm the clarity of their thinking and writing. The tone will generally be calm and measured, because if you believe in the free marketplace of ideas, overconfidence in the supremacy of your own view is a tell that you have not been thoughtful. Even the most widely accepted theories of justice, economics, religion, and politics

can benefit from refinement, modernization, and debate. A thoughtful idea is one that not only withstands scrutiny, but is also open to change through honest testing. As a trained attorney and longtime prosecutor, I have been taught the essential importance of skepticism and the danger of blind faith in particular persons, rather than in well-reasoned arguments. This space will of course not be a courtroom, but some of the principles of courtroom discourse and decorum will apply.

because that is how truth is most likely to be revealed and how accountability is most likely to be achieved. Just as in a courtroom, the advocates here will refrain from ad hominem attacks, falsehoods, and appeals to fear and bias. We will engage with, rather than ignore or mischaracterize, all valid arguments. Another key feature of thoughtfulness is good faith. It's easy to win an audience by playing to their biases and preconceived notions.

Now obviously, this Substack is not intended to present every point of view. It will be, if we do it right, a thoughtful stream of generally progressive thinking, but thinking that respects the intelligence of our readers and, equally as importantly, the intelligence and good faith of people who disagree. Our contributors, though many are professors of great distinction, will not lecture or condescend. No good teacher does.

To the contrary, they will by turns educate, provoke, stimulate, and perhaps alarm our readers. One of my great hopes for this new project is that the pieces here will prompt good faith dialogue among all of you on this platform. We welcome, indeed we crave, feedback, both positive and negative, so long as it's thoughtful. Thoughtfulness will be the coin of the realm. Expect to hear more from me soon, and from our contributors too,

Rachel Barkow, Erwin Chemerinsky, Ellie Honig, Nita Farahani, Barb McQuaid, Trevor Morrison, Asha Rangappa, Mimi Rocha, and Joyce Vance. Now, why stay tuned? I have heard a lot lately, including from longtime listeners of the podcast, that they no longer have the stamina or the stomach to follow every twist and turn of the news because of what's happening in our politics. I get that. I feel that way myself more often than I want to admit.

But my hunch is that one of the reasons people turn away is the tone in which news enters people's homes and people's screens. It alternates between hyperbolic, brazenly partisan, or just plain fake. And when politics is treated like a blood sport in a Roman Colosseum, that understandably turns off a lot of people. But I hope you'll agree, if you've listened this far, that turning away is not an option, especially in a moment as critical as this one.

Turning away has never made matters better. That's what your political adversaries want. When you turn away, you cede the ground. You forfeit the game. So don't quit. Stay tuned.

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