Elizabeth Spiers

Why You Shouldn't Use A.I. to Write A Professional Op-Ed, by Me, a Professional Op-Ed Writer Who Has Less Real Competition If You Do [Stanley Druckenmiller's WSJ op-ed, which he apparently wrote with A.I.

I'm offering a $100 discount on full-priced workshops (which include a one-on-one feedback and editing) for sign ups before September 1, 2026.

Updates, new workshop schedule, and random thoughts Here in NYC, public school kids don't start their summer break till late June, and they go back the first week of September.

I wrote about J.D.

I wrote about Elon Musk and the SpaceX IPO for The Nation.

I wrote a column for The Nation about the various billionaires who've been whining about Zohran Mamdani's teeny tiny tax increase on their multi-million dollar pied-a-terres and threatening to move to Florida.

I wrote about Justin and Cerina Fairfax for Vanity Fair.

I regret to inform you that the Silicon Valley billionaires keep doing and saying dumb horrible things, and so I must continue to write about them.

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it.

The NYT asked me if I had any thoughts about the discourse around Lindy West's new memoir, and her throuple and whether you can be a feminist and maybe be married to a shitty guy.

Every now and then I get asked to explain how I ended up with the career I have, and it’s been happening a lot lately, so I thought I’d write it up.

Alternative titles: PERLs Gone Wild, Bots Behaving Badly, Rage Incensed the Machine I wrote a column for The New York Times about agentic AI and a bot that wrote a hit piece about an engineer who rejected his code.

One of my ongoing frustrations of our culture's veneration of capitalistic success is that it causes people to ascribe positive qualities to rich people that they may or may not have--intelligence and competence, in particular.

I've added some new dates for opinion writing, personal essay, and creative/writing practice workshops.

Doing it for JournalismTM Some brave journalists go to war zones and get shot at.