It’s deflating to see Eliot Weinberger, an immensely important writer in my life whose work introduced me to modernism as well as classical Chinese poetry, who has one of the most fascinating far reaching encyclopedic minds of anyone alive today, doing boilerplate ChatGPT Orange Man Bad stuff in the LRB. Is that all he can get commissioned for? Can we get him to write a piece on the history of giraffes in world literature or something, like the old days?