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:

I wrote a thing about taking S to Paris for a second time, except this time to Paris, Texas. (Texas Highways)

The mind-bending reason fewer men go to college was right in front of our faces the whole time. (Celeste Davis)

Lots to unpack about how women and men in power are perceived differently—and how Kamala is threading that needle. (New York Times)

Compare and contrast the Times’ coverage of Hillary’s emails and Jack Smith’s recent court filing. (Margaret Sullivan)

In which leftie critics say Kamala Harris is deliberately trying to lose this race by touting… football? (Jonathan Chait)

Hard to imagine a better way to spend 90 minutes than watching this.

I was not prepared for the emotional wallop in the last episode. I wasn’t completely sold at the beginning of the season. By the end, hoo doggie.

I don’t think we talk enough about this scene from Inside Llewyn Davis.

Thanks to Elie Jacobs for sending this reminder along that we once had a president who could execute high-wire comedy.

Thanks to Catherine Cuellar for passing this along. Yes, this is really what it’s like to see Mötley Crüe these days.

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