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:
I would watch the hell out of a Netflix dramatization of the turn-of-the-century rivalry between Kamala Harris and Kimberly Guilfoyle. (Matt Flegenheimer)
—> “This Is What a Losing Campaign Looks Like” (David Frum)
If Iran had hacked oppo on Tim Walz and not JD Vance, would the news media still decide not to run with it? (Margaret Sullivan)
The indecision by conservative columnists in the Times is revealing and embarrassing. (Jonathan Chait)
I would love more of this sort of writing about JD Vance: specific, measured, personal (John McWhorter)
This recipe for sheet-pan chicken tikka thighs is easy and delicious. (New York Times Cooking)
This, about the legacy of the West Wing, was spot on. (James Poniewozik)
Can’t wait to see Ali Siddiq in a couple weeks in Dallas. Here’s his ground-breaking special that established him.
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