Your Mid-Week Experiment
Welcome to your always free, reader-supported 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:
This is the smartest thing I’ve read about Donald Trump getting shot, and I gotta say, Scott Galloway’s evolution from wealthy investor into an advocate of a $25-an-hour minimum wage is something to behold. (No Mercy/No Malice)
This is the smartest thing I’ve read about the state of our democracy. (Tressie McMillan Cottom) h/t Elise Hu and her excellent newsletter that inspired me to start this one.
This is the smartest thing I’ve ever read about teenagers screaming at a pop concert. (Chris Richards)
Looking forward to the world premier of Paul Williams’ musical Gods & Monsters here in Dallas in August (ticket info)
This criticism of the New York Times’ coverage of Trump’s convention speech is entirely fair, and I’m a little mad at myself for not writing this. (Jameson Foser)
The post-2016 election liberal fascination with Trump voters, Pennsyltuckey diners, and J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy always irritated me, and this podcast captures and articulates that far better than I could have.
The world is undefeated and merciless, even with someone like Ben Bradlee. (Sally Quinn)
Thanks to Alan Gerardo Padilla Aguilar for this rave review of Forget the Alamo … three years after its pub date! (Latino Book Review)
Subscriber Dustin Laycock shared this music recommendation. What are you listening to?
Trae Crowder has JD Vance’s receipts.
Find Me Falling delivers a reliable rom-com experience. Extra points to Harry Connick Jr. for letting himself go.
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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.