Your 6/10 Experiment
Welcome to your always free, reader-supported, mid-week edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free.
Let’s get right to it.
‘I thought I had my future wife’: The Florida woman catfishing America’s political class. This is the most messed-up story I’ve read in a long time. (free link)
The War on Waymo. Had not imagined that automated vehicles could wipe out 3% of all American jobs, or that driving is the leading occupation for young men without a degree. (free link)
The Obama Center opens as a time warp to an old political order. The architecture columnist for The Washington Post gorgeously articulates the purpose presidential libraries have and how Obama’s fulfills it. (gift link)
The White House’s Latest Provocation Is ‘Grotesque and Terrifying and Juvenile’. If you want to understand how this White House is mainstreaming replacement theory, read this by M. Gessen. (gift link)
Why Are Birthrates Down? You Might Be Looking at the Answer. Two studies now find links between iPhones, combined with high-speed internet access, and declining birth rates. (gift link)
I Just Realized Why I Liked ‘Hacks’ So Much. Some critics have written that Hacks was a pean to work and ambition; David French celebrates the show for its depiction of friendship. (free link)
Surprised I enjoyed this so much.
We set up a merch table in the back where you can get T-shirts, coffee mugs, and even tote bags now. Show the world that you’re part of The Experiment.
Buy the book Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick banned from the Bullock Texas History Museum: Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of the American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and myself.