Your Mid-Week Experiment
Including what might be the best movie I've seen this year
Welcome to all the new subscribers, including the author of Weapons of Mass Delusion, the new book that is the center of much discussion in Washington as well as the subject of this week’s essay, “Jan. 6 was…” The book is enjoying an enviable rollout with a great review in the Washington Post (“vital and indispensable” … “his rigorous reporting adds an unusual level of depth to his account of U.S. politics since Jan. 6, 2021.) and an excerpt in the New York Times Magazine.
While we’re promoting the work of friends, my pal Wes Ferguson has a new true crime podcast out.
Neurons grown in a petri dish not only can play pong but get better at it. (Axios)
“It’s not, as much of our political discourse implies, that the Democrats have a working-class or Middle America or non-college-voter problem. The more important story is that America has a White voter problem.” (Perry Bacon)
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is a shockingly good movie. Ann Hornaday gets it exactly right, but I recommend watching the movie on Hulu first and then gaining deeper insight in the review after.
“On Kari Lake’s campaign for Arizona governor, the mic is always hot” (Ruby Cramer)
“America’s problem is White people keep backing the Republican Party” (Perry Bacon Jr.)
Yes, I know M.I.A. is problematic, but I’m not listening to her new album MATA to get medical advice.
Maya Rudolph has funny bones.
Thanks to Noom, I lost 40 pounds over 2020-21 and have kept it off since then. Click on the blue box to get 20% off. Seriously, this works. No, this isn’t an ad. Yes, I really lost all that weight with Noom. It’s a behavior-change app, and it has changed my life.
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We’ve also got a tip jar, and I promise to waste every cent you give me on having fun, because writing this newsletter for you is some
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. Out in paperback now!