Dan Sinker/about

I do a lot

I'm Dan Sinker, and I've been making trouble since I was 19 years old, when I started a punk magazine in my bedroom and somehow kept it going for 13 years. That experience—of building something scrappy and loud and real, and of believing that culture and politics and the way we live in the world actually matters—is basically how I've done everything ever since.

Right now I'm deep in a book about a newspaper editor in Indiana in the 1920s who went to war with the Ku Klux Klan. But I do a lot: I make podcasts, like Rebel Spirit and Says Who. I've written for Esquire and The Atlantic and The New York Times. I build weird internet things. I teach sometimes. I've built communities. I run a store. Like I said, I do a lot.

But running through it all is a simple idea: I think things could be better than they are, and I've spent my whole damn life making stuff that, I hope, helps us get there.

If you want to know more about me, here's an enormous list of (most) everything I've done, big and small.

Yes, I know it's a lot. You can filter it with these buttons.

Oh yeah, there's also this.