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.

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Let’s get right to it:

This essay by Never-Trumper David French on what he wishes he could tell himself in 2015 is worth a read, a think, and then a re-read. (gift link)

This Atlantic piece is the smartest thing I’ve read about why you shouldn’t pay attention to polls. (gift link)

Smart insight on Kamala's struggles with young male voters. (Monica Hesse)

Kamala gets the Robert Draper treatment. Good read with new insights. (gift link)

A likewise smart examination of how Saturday Night Live is addressing the Trump Paradox. (Lili Loofbourow)

Dave Barry’s review of Fifty Shades of Grey is worth a re-read. h/t to BJ Harding for the rec (Miami Herald)

Never made the connection between the Satanic panics in the ‘80s and the trans/groomer BS now. (gift link)

I mean, it was fine.

This could be significant.

I am late to Shrinking. Enjoying it. Lots of nice moments.

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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.