Lauren Teixeira

Hello!

I am a writer and researcher in San Francisco. I work as an analyst at the Breakthrough Institute, where I spend my days thinking about the political economy of wildfire mitigation in California and the limits of AI energy demand, among other topics.

I have led may lives. From 2014-2020 I lived in various cities across China and wrote for The Economist, New York, Foreign Policy, and more. After that I lived in New York and co-hosted an oddly popular literary podcast that got written up in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The Spectator.

At the moment my side projects include writing a substack and re-invigorating the party economy. Poke around to learn more!

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Lauren Teixeira

Writing

Selected Work

Other Projects

Podcast

Our Struggle

A literary podcast co-hosted with Drew Ohringer, ostensibly about Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume autobiographical "My Struggle" series — but really an ongoing, deadpan conversation about life, criticism, and culture with writers and intellectuals from the literary world. Guests included Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Joshua Cohen, and literary critic Christian Lorentzen, among others.

The New Yorker Vanity Fair The Spectator Dagens Næringsliv
The New Yorker → Vanity Fair profile → The Spectator review → Dagens Næringsliv →
Project

Re-invigorating the party economy

An ongoing effort to reverse the decline of the party. Starting from a theoretical foundation, and moving into action with the Take the Party Pledge movement.

A unified theory of the death of partying → Take the Party Pledge → Take the Party Pledge Party recap →

Contact

✉ Email ↗ Twitter / X ↗ Substack ↗ Breakthrough Institute ↗ LinkedIn