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David Plotz (born January 31, 1970) is an American journalist and is currently the CEO of Atlas Obscura, an online magazine devoted to discovery and exploration. A writer with Slate since its inception in 1996, Plotz was the online magazine's editor from June 2008 until July 2014, succeeding Jacob Weisberg.

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Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.

Doe, Magazines, Political, Politics, Slate

А weekly column is really tough.

Column, Columns, Tough, Weekly

So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated—like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’ or limps her wrist to suggest someone’s gay.

Gay, Aunt, Names, Old, Limps, Suggest

It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

Brooklyn, Easier, New York, People, Washington

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture.

Culture, Law, Reading

Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not true about me - but it was very hurtful. And there was like, a period of time that it was very panicky, I was very upset. And my son at the time was, I guess seven, eight months old, and I would wake up early with him and let my wife sleep.

Attacked, Early, Seven, Sleep, Son, Up Early

When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.

Knows, New York, Reading, Topic, Writing

I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.

Book, Conflicts, Language, Pure, School, Thinking

I feel like there's lot of people who know finance and economics better than I do. There are lots of people who are better storytellers than I am. But the space that I occupy of storytelling about finance and economics is - more people want it than can do it.

Know, Like, People, Space, Storytelling, Want

You're talking to investors - and investors, they look at you and they realize, you know, not every business they invest in are the founders or the people running it going to have every bit of skill - and I think they looked at me and realized, OK, this is a guy who's got a lot - I'm much older than the usual run of people they fund.

Fund, Guy, Looked, Running, Talking, Thinking

Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

Amok, Culture, Innocent, Political, Running, Way

I know I would have learned a huge amount had I read the Bible with my rabbi. But I also would have missed a huge amount, and I would have been guided down the narrow paths where the rabbi led me, not the paths that I chose for myself.

Chose, Down, Knows, Path, Rabbi

The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters behave in inexplicable ways. It takes a little bit of time to get into the rhythm of the book. I found reading the first 15 chapters of Genesis very very difficult. Once I got past there, I loved reading, and found it very easy. When you get used to the Bible, it becomes thrilling to read (like any great book - I just had exactly the same experience with the Odyssey).

Book, Character, Loved, Read, Reading, Stories

The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think I am making a mistake by reading without support from educated people. After all, there is 2,000 years of scholarship about the book, they say, so it's perverse of me to ignore it.

Christian, Jesus, Jews, Mistake, Think

I have blocks of time where I'm working intently on something.

Block, Blocks, Intently, Time, Working

I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there's much more demand than there is supply.

Numbers, People, Important, Economics, Supply

My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention to the thing she's focusing on for a very long period of time, and that has served her incredibly well in her professional career. She knows - the things she knows, she knows them just so deeply.

Career, Careers, Mother, Period, Somebody, Thinking

I'm so grateful to Hugo Lindgren, Jon Kelly, and the people who gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column. It's an amazing thing to do, and when I started they both said, you know, the problem with columns is they just exist forever.

Grateful, Jon, Opportunity, Problem, Writing

The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do.

Ask, Front, Ideas, Just Being, Money, People

Having good relations with lots of lots of different people helps a lot.

Different, Good, Having, Helping, People

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