Your Mid-Week Experiment
I got back from vacation yesterday and only got the Internet working at home in the last hour. Welcome to your always free, reader-supported post-vacation edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free.
Lots to get to, but first, three newsletters you should subscribe to:
No one sees certain moments as clearly as Dave Weigel does. (Semofor Americana)
“Biden, a genuinely decent person, has let his ego wager all our futures. His willingness to do so reflects a common, human failing. That doesn’t make it any less wrong or selfish.” (Scott Galloway)
Tom Jones, an indispensable morning read, makes the media’s case about why they aren’t, and shouldn’t also call on Donald Trump to resign. (The Poynter Report)
I didn’t know “clinical frailty” was a thing until this geriatrician explained it so well. (Dr. Rachel Bedard)
A conservative’s case for middle-aged leadership in America (Yuval Levin)
Paul Theroux sees writing exactly like I do. He’s just a million times more successful. (New York Times)
Here are all the movies I watched on airplanes while crossing the Atlantic:
Couldn’t get through Burn After Reading when it first came out. Loved it on a rewatch this week.
This was not aimed at me in the late ‘90s, but 50-something me guffawed audibly at its campy goodness.
I always enjoy movies written by Diablo Cody, and Lisa Frankenstein was no different, but was it good?
This was so tense I had to turn it off. Great, but your stress tolerances may vary.
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We’ve also got a tip jar, and I promise to waste every cent you give me on having fun, because writing this newsletter for you is how I have fun.
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 is out from Penguin Random House.