This week on The Rushfield Lunch — my series of live conversations with the most interesting thinkers and doers of these tumultuous days — I was joined by noted writer and literati Claire Zulkey, whose Evil Witches newsletter has become the hub for moms who’ve had just about enough of the advice-o-sphere.
In a lively chat, we talk about some of the Witches’ recent hot items: a heated debate about what to do with the bottle of sand her child brought home from the beach (“I could just throw away this garbage, but it’s not really fair for me to do it”) and the fantastically inappropriate message another child spelled out in the shower steam: “If we can just all be honest about how we’re all struggling, then you don’t really compare yourself to other people.”
We pore over the great topic of our times: how much screen time to allow your kids and, more importantly, how to avoid feeling guilty wherever you set the line. Claire also explains Chicago to me, a befuddled coastal elite. “Our lake looks like the ocean, which cannot be overemphasized,” she says. “We have a coast, too, it’s just much smaller than yours. But we’ve got one, so we love our coast, but we’re always mad our coast is not as coasty as yours.”
If you missed the festivities, enjoy the video above and join us next Wednesday at 11 a.m. PT when we welcome another very special guest.
My earlier episodes have featured Lena Dunham, Amazon Studios founder Roy Price, Substack cofounder Hamish McKenzie and longtime film producer and exec Ted Hope. I’ve also lunched with cultural commentators Ted Gioia, Ben Dreyfuss and Sonny Bunch, young Hollywood representative Tepper, the authors Matthew Specktor, Meghan Daum and Olga Khazan, and Netflix comedy mavens Tom Segura and Jeremy Konner. All episodes are archived on our YouTube page.
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