David Hiroshi Jager: How the Art World Lost Its Mind

0:00 – Cold open: I'm at war with India
0:12 – Intro
0:17 – Journalist, author, or arts and culture writer?
1:54 – Tablet, David Samuels, and the authorial voice
4:31 – County Highway, the newspaper that looks like a Civil War broadsheet
5:12 – The woman with no Social Security number
6:52 – Michael Moynihan, Pirate Wires, and the new journalism
9:19 – The Hezbollah pager documentary
10:55 – October 7th on GoPro
13:38 – Lou's 9/11 at NYU
16:40 – "I never dreamed my controversial opinion would be Israel"
18:36 – Lou's war with India (over cricket)
21:22 – The Venice Biennale and the Israeli pavilion
23:21 – The Brooklyn art collective that cheered October 7th
24:28 – A Native American Zionist
28:40 – "Israelis are going to fight"
29:57 – Ethiopian Jews, Arab Jews, and the Knesset
32:24 – Why the Palestinian flag is everywhere
35:34 – Mamdani, Bernie, and Abdul El-Sayed
40:30 – A Saul Bellow-esque Jewish father-in-law
43:09 – "Dad, am I safe?"
44:22 – October 7th was a really bad idea
48:32 – The Bosnian joke
51:08 – Palestinian wine at Parental Advisory
52:37 – The Berlin painter who can't get a gallery
54:23 – True crime, serial killers, and Capote
57:56 – How Artforum blew up over October 7th
1:00:17 – Where to find David