Open in app
Home
Notifications
Lists
Stories

Write
Matthew Sheahan
Matthew Sheahan

Home

Jan 19

The coming crypto reckoning

The lure of being lucky and striking it rich is a powerful opiate in America. From our very foundation as a place of refuge for the unluckiest of Europe, the self-made millionaire has a place of reverence in American lore. Very few attain that status, but millions have exhausted that…

Cryptocurrency

3 min read

The coming crypto reckoning
The coming crypto reckoning

Jan 3

Strength and creativity in 2022

We entered 2022 in a state of sickness but also with a determination to reenter life with meaning and determination. I sat on a couch with a plastic cup full of soda and a non-alcoholic sparkling grape juice as the giant Waterford crystal ball dropped in Times Square on television…

Covid 19

2 min read

Strength and creativity in 2022
Strength and creativity in 2022

Dec 21, 2021

Quarantined for Christmas

New York is aglow in holiday glory. Within walking distance of my home are houses and apartment buildings adorned in beautiful lights and holiday displays. Midtown Manhattan is deluged with the stunning accoutrements of the holiday season, and parts of the outer boroughs and the suburbs have homes that take…

Covid 19

4 min read

Quarantined for Christmas
Quarantined for Christmas

Oct 24, 2021

Hellish punk anthems for a decidedly sinful New York

This Halloween season finds New York City in a state of awkward transition to whatever post-pandemic world will eventually be shaped by the COVID outbreak, which continues to strut and fret its prolonged hours on the world stage. Our city, the epicenter of the Coronavirus outbreak, is setting a template…

Halloween

3 min read

Hellish punk anthems for a decidedly sinful New York
Hellish punk anthems for a decidedly sinful New York

Jul 23, 2021

Clawing our back to a “new normal”

Early in May, I returned to a company office to work for the first time since March 2020. The company I worked for at the time is headquartered in Times Square. The earliest express bus that comes through my neighborhood arrived at 6 a.m. and it was at about half…

Covid 19

4 min read

Clawing our back to a “new normal”
Clawing our back to a “new normal”

May 16, 2021

Vaxxed to the max

We’re approaching the end of the biggest global pandemic in more than a century, and New York is ready to dive into Spring and Summer with renewed fervor. Much of America is reopening prematurely, with some states flouting mask mandates and common sense the way they have for the past…

Covid 19

3 min read

Vaxxed to the max
Vaxxed to the max

Apr 1, 2021

A death in Whitestone

A mile and a half from where I live, at the same intersection where I’ve used the ATM countless times and taken my children for numerous fast food happy meals, a man was killed outside a bar after being punched in a fight. A 35-year-old-man punched a man 20 years…

New York

3 min read

A death in Whitestone
A death in Whitestone

Feb 11, 2021

Truth and civilization

More than 30 years ago now, I was selected as my high school’s intern for our local Congressman. I spent a week working from the Capitol Hill office of Representative Bruce Morrison, a Democrat who represented the third district of Connecticut. Though he was running for Governor of Connecticut that…

Truth

5 min read

Truth and civilization
Truth and civilization

Jan 13, 2021

RIP Kathy Shaidle, Five Feet of Fury

In the midst of a brutally chaotic and violent week, we lost one of our fiercest and funniest voices with the death of Kathy Shaidle in Ontario on January 9. Kathy Shaidle was an opinion writer, poet, film, and cultural critic and unrelenting defender of free speech. She was a…

Kathy Shaidle

3 min read

RIP Kathy Shaidle, Five Feet of Fury
RIP Kathy Shaidle, Five Feet of Fury

Jan 7, 2021

2021 New Yorker’s To Do List

Happy New Year from New York City, where neither the Coronavirus, incompetent leadership, nor burgeoning crime can kill us. We have been through a lot over the past year and will go through much more before our current pandemic is over. …

2021

3 min read

2021 New Yorker’s To Do List
2021 New Yorker’s To Do List
Matthew Sheahan

Matthew Sheahan

Following
  • Will Leitch

    Will Leitch

  • Rachel Presser

    Rachel Presser

  • Broke-Ass Stuart

    Broke-Ass Stuart

  • Jessica Delfino

    Jessica Delfino

  • Cottia Fortune

    Cottia Fortune

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Knowable