Your Mid-Week Experiment
Happy debate eve! 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:
My dad finally publicly acknowledged his role in outing the late Neil Goldschmidt (Transportation Secretary, Oregon Governor, Portland Mayor) for his statutory rape of a teenage babysitter. (Phil Stanford)
Hey, kids, would you like to get murderously angry at how schools have been teaching kids to read until recently, which has been teaching them how not to read? I got a podcast for you right here:
Are you a Supreme Court voter? (court voter.org)
I know, I know, but the guy makes three excellent points about what is and isn’t important in a presidential debate. (Frank Luntz)
The headline is chilling (“What ‘democracy’ means to the post-Jan. 6 right”), and the article is scarier. (Dave Weigel)
Not responding to reporters’ requests for comment is way, way up. (CJR)
Two points are being made here about the counterproductivity of annoying protests and the necessity of conversations to effect change, and both are made brilliantly. (Charlotte Clymer)
This recipe for moqueca, a Brazilian fish stew, turned out delicious. (New York Times Cooking)
I love, love, love this anti-tourism ad for Oslo.
I wasn’t feeling well on Sunday, so S and I watched a lot of movies. This one, recommended by her chess teacher, was wonderfully weird and engaging.
Liked this more than the reviews prepared me for.
Liked this one exactly as much as the reviews told me I would, which was a lot.
Spec. Tack. You. Lar.
This is so weird.
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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.