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:
“We Lived Happily During the War” -Ilya Kiminsky (free link)
“Do the opposite.” -Nina Jankowicz (free link)
“Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.” -Václav Havel (free link)
“I’m a great believer in our ability to keep several thoughts alive at the same time; in our ability to discuss, work through things, take this and leave that, and so on – I am less interested in judging and disqualifying than I am in trying to get to the bottom of a thing, staying open, entertaining contradictions within myself…” -George Saunders (free link)
“The Department of Data went looking for geographic patterns in poverty, and stumbled upon a surprising culprit.” -Andrew Van Dam (gift link)
“I believe that the recent runup in gold prices is telling us something — namely, that the world is losing faith in America.” -Paul Krugman (free link)
“Wanting a house and children makes you a tradwife only if you insist that feminism means eating lonely dinners of cat hair and male tears — a position that has never been taken by any feminist but is taken by a lot of angry men on TV.” -Monica Hesse (gift link)
“These are the last days of social media, not because we lack content, but because the attention economy has neared its outer limit — we have exhausted the capacity to care.” -James O’Sullivan (free link)
Get ready to run through a wall.
Dancing a fine line here.
OK, I’m in.
Reliably entertaining.
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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.
Thanks for amplifying, Jason!