Here are links to my Daily Posts from the archives, March 10-14, in case you missed them, and some interesting articles from around the internet. You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, Facebook. Please note that I am no longer accepting new “friends” on FB, and culling my list there. You can use the “follow” option, but I’m increasingly wary of letting people in.
LINKS!
TWO new essays this week:
“Merle Oberon and the Tyranny of Whiteness”
And:
“On Protests, Resistance, and Media Coverage”
From the archive:
“American Gay: Pete Buttigieg and the Politics of Forgetting”
“Every President Is a Sociopath”
“Food Pantry Shortages: What’s the Real Story?
On Trump, Immigration, and the Failure of the Left
ELSEWHERE!
The AP reports on a North Carolina Town Hall, where attendees hurled “scating questions on Trump.” As I wrote in my latest, “On Protests, Resistance, and Media Coverage,” this is the kind of reporting we need. Protests are happening everywhere, not just in the three or four cities defined as “major.”
Alex Scopic has this brilliant, complex, beautifully argued essay on Andrew Cuomo: “Will Democrats Keep Protecting Abusive Men?” Read, repost everywhere, and send to all your New Yorker friends.
“The next flu pandemic could be worse than Covid.” The co-authors include Arijit Chakravarty, one of the few medical experts who have been writing with integrity about the ongoing pandemic, and the health crises staring us in the face.
And here is Victoria Law on Covid and prisons.
Chicago’s National Public Housing museum is set to open.
Did you know that Jerry Lewis made a holocaust movie? Yes, he did. Yes, it sounds as weird as you might think. No, you can’t watch it anywhere—and this, from the Decoder Ring podcast, tells you why.
I have not yet read Pankaj Misra’s The World after Gaza, but listened to this excerpt, “Israel and the Delusions of Germany’s ‘Memory Culture.’” It’s on the site of The Guardian which, it’s good to remember, has a bad track record on Israel and censorship. (They fired Nathan J. Robinson over Israel tweets.) Everything is just an opportunity for clicks, I guess.
Speaking of Germany’s “Memory Culture”: this, by Alex Cocotas in The Baffler, “How German Isn’t It: The ceremonial performance of Jewishness in Germany,” is really worth a read.
I woke up on Sunday, March 9, in the Maw of Night. Daylight Savings Time sucks.
Kamala Harris didn’t have the guts to assert herself against a geriatric president who told here there was, “No daylight, kid,” between the two of them.
I’m not the kind to say, “I told you so,” but, hey, I did in fact tell you so.
The Team is moving fast, and breaking things—and then trying to put it all back together again. Whoops.
David Graeber, talking about the extreme centre, is the reminder we need.
It is a rough, rough world and time out there. Stay as whole as you can, and with the ones you love and trust. I will see you next week.
