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Honest words that cut through the interminable handwringing of middle-class neurotics and mediocrities who dominate the literary world. You don’t need to compromise, you don’t need to professionalize, you don’t need to get rich. You need to live and you need to write. That’s all.
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this debate has EVERYTHING: dog eating, baby killing, transgender operations on illegal aliens in prisons
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This is intensely profound. The worst part of Trumpism is that it punches down, steps on the lowly, and destroys beauty.
It’s the opposite of true strength
True strength defends, like, UKRAINE. And the poor, and the migrants.
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Demanding that your fellow citizens adhere to the strictest interpretation of the Bible while not requiring any adherence to the Bible from your preferred presidential candidate is one of the clearest ways to express that you see the Bible only as a tool for your own power.
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“There is much to enjoy about hating a month so completely. It would be romantic—except the only tension between us is the dread I feel as I anticipate August’s inevitable return.”
“Against August” by Haley Mlotek. buff.ly/4dnKSpH
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The Obamas summer on Martha’s Vineyard. So do the Clintons. So do several influential Democratic Party donors. So naturally, it was of interest to Baffler founding editor @thomasfrank_ in the runup to the 2016 election.
thebaffler.com/salvos/wither…
Emotion is not weakness. Love for family is not embarrassing. If love makes you uncomfortable I feel sorry for your shame.
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Harris: We must make the economy work for everyone.
Trump: Spaghetti? Have you heard of this pasta? Terrible pasta shape, Chef Boyardee was not a beautiful man.
RFK Jr.: When I was a young man I kept a dead chimp in my garage for 67 days.
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Eighty gloriously unhinged seconds in which Jordan Peterson tries to sell Elon Musk on "the carnivore diet"
