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:
“When he was born, he was legally considered less than fully human.” -Ryan Holiday, writing a great lead and a lovely obituary of his friend George Raveling (free link)
“Why didn’t Generation X replicate our own experiences for our children? Why did so many millions of free-range kids grow up to become helicopter parents?” -David French (gift link)
Bill McCamley has been diving into the crisis of American masculinity on his new Substack, Right My Dudes… So Now What? (free link)
“This article was originally written and edited in May 2009 to appear in The Washington Post’s now defunct Outlook section. … To my frustration, my article was never published.” -Glenn Kessler (free link)
Your mileage may vary with deadpan absurdism and Jim Jarmusch. I loved it.
One of the all-time unlikeliest comebacks in baseball history.
And here’s the movie version.
Classic Police Squad bit.
Cute and fun if paper-thin. Gen Z Monkees.
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 is out from Penguin Random House.