Your Mid-Week Experiment
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Read lots of amazing stuff this week. Let’s get to it.
Made this for dinner Tuesday night with leftover chicken. Consider that a dry run for what I’m going to do with a lot of leftover turkey.
This is the article that catalyzed last weekend’s essay on the demise of social media: “The Age of Social Media Is Ending” (The Atlantic)
“A Few Rules For Predicting the Future” (Octavia E. Butler)
Two great writers have their say on a singular subject: Nancy Pelosi:
“Nancy Pelosi Reflects On the Not-Quite-End of An Era” (Molly Ball)
“‘I feel balanced about it all’: Nancy Pelosi reflects on two decades at the top” (Paul Kane)
These two pieces need to be read in tandem:
“Only Musk can right the ship. But, when it comes to authoritarians, bet on the shipwreck.” (E.J. Fagan)
“No matter what becomes of Donald Trump, the forces of intolerance, racism, and belligerence he harnessed in American politics will persist.” h/t Elise Hu (Jelani Cobb)
Change is possible, yet paradoxical:
“Michael Gerson followed his faith — and America was better for it” (Karen Tumulty)
“The Vampire Problem: A Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Paradox of Transformative Experience” h/t Elise Hu (Maria Popova)
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