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Speaking at Columbia University around this time, Gupta reflected on his new ambition. “When I look at myself, yeah, I am driven by money,” he said. “And when I live in this society, you know, you do get fairly materialistic, so I look at that. I am disappointed. I am probably more materialistic today than I was before, and I think money is very seductive.” He continued: “You have to watch out for it, because the more you have it, you get used to comforts, and you get used to, you know, big houses and vacation homes and going and doing whatever you want, and so it is very seductive. However much you say that you will not fall into the trap of it, you do fall into the trap of it.”

Younger voters in general, but younger men in particular don’t turn to the traditional sources of news that a lot of us think of. They don’t watch cable news. They don’t read newspapers, either in dead tree version or online

They mostly get their news from social media. A recent Pew poll shows that four in 10 voters under 30 get much of their news from TikTok in particular

This interview with Theo Von has about twice the viewership of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s much ballyhooed interview with Dana Bash of CNN. And so we just have to simply understand: The media ecosystem has changed fundamentally, and there’s no going back to the old world. And we have to adjust how we cover and think about politics for that world.