Adrienne LaFrance
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What’s the one book you’ve recommended to people more than any other over the past 10 years?
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Now is a good time to read this, by J. Michael Luttig and
@tribelaw
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“The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again”
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I finally wrote about something that I’ve been observing for quite some time. Silicon Valley clearly has an ascendant political ideology, and it’s past time we call it what it really is: authoritarian technocracy. (1/3)
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In recent years, this ideology has only grown stronger, more self-righteous, more delusional, and—in the face of rising criticism—more aggrieved. We would all do well to pay much closer attention to it:
(3/3)
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“These aren’t the growing pains of a society making difficult advances toward an orderly peace. These are the morbid symptoms of a society coming undone, and they arise largely from policy choices made by interested parties with material motives.”
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“What I do know, after dozens of conversations with Greene’s classmates and teachers, friends and associates, is that by the time she reached her late 30s, something in her had started to break.”
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The new technocrats are ostentatious in their use of language that appeals to Enlightenment values—reason, progress, freedom, optimism—but in fact they are leading an antidemocratic, illiberal movement. (2/3)
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“I’ve read thousands of judicial opinions in my four decades as a law student and lawyer. Few have been as good as this one.”
Here’s
@gtconway3d
on the big Trump legal news of the day, and what it all means:
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“The extremists and conspiracists and populists, the authoritarians and kleptocrats and theocrats, who have all gained so much ascendancy in recent years, they do not speak for us... Sometimes, Americans forget that.”
@davidfrum
's latest:
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A sweeping history of what smartphones and social media are doing to people—especially kids. An absolute must-read from
@JonHaidt
, in defense of childhood:
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Must-read
@RadioFreeTom
:
“Trump Encourages Putin to Attack NATO Members
“At a rally on Saturday, the former president announced he would tell the Russians “to do whatever the hell they want” to states delinquent in their bills.”
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Just-published
@davidfrum
: "The Supreme Court now has the opportunity to offer Republicans an exit from their Trump predicament, in time to let some non-insurrectionist candidate win the Republican nomination and contest the presidency."
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This is one of the best things I have ever read. I wouldn't dare try to pick a single quote. Stop what you're doing and read James Parker on "The Waste Land" at 100:
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Here’s
@gtconway3d
’s dispatch from the courtroom yesterday.
“Usually, the weakness in one bad argument bleeds into the other, and vice versa—producing a sum that is even less than its parts. And that’s what happened here…”
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“The ‘TWITTER FILES’ released so far do not describe a violation of the First Amendment. Instead, they detail the exercise of First Amendment rights by independent, private actors.”
Must-read
@DavidAFrench
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Here's
@AdamSerwer
on demagoguery:
"Cotton and Hawley are demanding that Biden use force against the protesters not just because they consistently advocate for state violence... but because any escalation in chaos would redound to their political benefit."
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Really smart.
@AdamSerwer
has been thinking deeply about this for a long time. For anyone who cares about free speech, this is very much worth reading:
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Must-read of the day!
@elainaplott
's deeply reported story about the speaker of the House poses a key question: "What if Mike Johnson is actually good at this?"
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Must-read
@mariaressa
: "Let me say this to you as clearly as I possibly can: This happened to me. It can happen to you."
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Good morning! The Atlantic’s Great American Novels list is out today. This is a big one, and so fun to peruse.
The best American novels of the past 100 years:
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"Sedition is likely unfamiliar to many people, and for good reason: It’s extremely rare."
@GrahamDavidA
with the history and context:
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And you can sign up for George’s newsletter here—a real-time chronicle of the former president’s legal troubles, by George T. Conway III:
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One enduring lesson from Anthony Bourdain: embrace ambiguity and uncertainty. It is possible,
@brhodes
writes, to "look honestly at the world’s diversity, complexity, and occasional depravity, and be better for it."
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“I can do it if I want,” says
@realDonaldTrump
, threatening to use his emergency powers if he doesn’t get the funding he wants to build the wall. Here’s what that means (every American should read this article):
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Must-read George Packer:
"Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university."
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I ❤️ journalism. Congratulations to my mega-talented, totally brilliant colleagues at The Atlantic.
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read in my entire life. It made me cry three separate times. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Simply gorgeous, by
@sarahzhang
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This is a fascinating (and genuinely awe inspiring) argument by
@DKThomp
about what it takes to change the world. Very much worth reading:
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Basically the Mona Lisa
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“Trump cannot control himself. He cannot accept that the more Americans hear from Trump, the more they will prefer Biden.”
@davidfrum
’s latest:
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For anyone worried about chilling effects on the reporting and distribution of accurate information in the public interest, please subscribe to the magazines and papers that publish the work you value.
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Just published, from Gary Bass:
“Kissinger’s apologists today tend to breeze past such coarse stereotypes about foreign nations, extolling his pursuit of U.S. national interests while overlooking the toll on real human beings.”
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Things that are much younger than The Atlantic but still very old:
• The telephone
• Pop-up toasters
• The Lincoln Memorial
• The word "robot"
• Dracula!
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"There is a large dose of what one might call 'baloney realism' in the judicious declarations by those who say that all wars must end in negotiations. No, they do not have to."
Must-read
@EliotACohen
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Writers! Who else out there insists on transcribing all their own tape, without using software? Trying to decide if I am an ancient dinosaur or just a weirdo. (Obviously I am both of these things.)
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A persuasive argument from
@davidfrum
, worth reading. “Why Biden Should Not Debate Trump:”
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It is a very big deal that Stewart Rhodes was just found guilty of seditious conspiracy—in part because the conviction is not just about Rhodes. Now is the time to read Mike Giglio’s definitive and prescient investigation of the Oath Keepers, from 2020:
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Congratulations to
@imaniperry
, who won the National Book Award for nonfiction last night. You can read more of her work for The Atlantic here:
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RIP Instagram
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My long-in-the-works profile of Albert Brooks. I hope you'll read it:
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"If reasonable people disengage from politics, the zealots win."
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Here’s
@MariaRessa
on how quickly democracy can collapse, and what she wishes she knew when it was happening:
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We live on the coolest planet.
Sprite lightning photographed over the Andes Mountains and above the Aegean Sea (photo credit: Yuri Beletsky in Argentina and Thanasis Papathanasiou in Greece)
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"Putin killed him—because of his political success, because of his ability to reach people with the truth, and because of his talent for breaking through the fog of propaganda that now blinds his countrymen, and some of ours as well." read
@anneapplebaum
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Very D.C. to see a Bob Woodward book in a free library outside of the Watergate
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“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.”
From John F. Kennedy’s 1963 eulogy for Robert Frost:
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Elon Musk has been flirting with the news business since the 1990s. I wrote this four years ago, but it still reveals so much about what is happening today. His disdain for journalists and journalism goes way back:
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This is so great.
@julieebeck
on the durable folklore of American childhood—from "the cool S" to "Jingle Bells, Batman smells..."
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This is fascinating. The Ticketmaster fiasco says a lot about Ticketmaster, of course, but it also suggests that:
1. Taylor Swift might be as big as the Beatles
2. Live music has totally and completely changed
@skornhaber
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The clarity with which Anne lays this out is frankly frightening (and very important). Must-read
@anneapplebaum
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"The next big question in American politics: Is Florida’s reelected governor, Ron DeSantis, a leader or a follower, a man or a mouse?"
@davidfrum
explains it all:
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Let’s all write poems and then tear them up into teeny-weeny pieces.
A letter Kurt Vonnegut wrote 16 years ago today, not long before his death, that I think about all the time:
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You have to read this.
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"Consider the human brain, with 100 billion firefly-like neurons. We can understand everything about how individual neurons work... but we still cannot fill in all the blanks for how the collection of neurons produces the sensation we call consciousness."
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"One of Spiegelman’s longtime catchphrases—'Never again and again and again'—feels eerily prescient... Maus’s importance cannot be overstated: It shifted how people talk about history, trauma, and ethnic and racial persecution."
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Y i k e s.
"I asked why they couldn’t just ban phones during school hours. They said too many parents would be upset if they could not reach their children during the school day."
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People answering the phone in the 1800s: Ahoy hoy!
1900s: Hello?
2022: Hello? Wait, hello? Can you hear me? Hi! Are you there? Ugh. Hold on. Sorry! Airpods, sorry, my Airpods. Are you there? Can you hear me? Hi, ugh, sorry about that. What's up?
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“Instead, we’re forced to confront a more disturbing reality: War crimes, torture, rape, and barbaric murders are often carried out by people who are disturbingly like ourselves.”
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A gorgeous essay by Alan Lightman.
“We are literally connected to the stars, and we are literally connected to future generations of people. In this way, even in a material universe, we are connected to all things future and past.”
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"It doesn’t have to be this way." Must-read
@Peter_Wehner
on Trump's "clearly fascistic" rhetoric: "Have You Listened Lately to What Trump Is Saying?"
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"What ought to have been, as a matter of the Constitution’s design and purpose, the climax of the struggle for the survival of America’s democracy and the rule of law instead turned out to be its nadir..."
A must-read from
@judgeluttig
and
@tribelaw
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"In 1936, Jesse Owens—the son of sharecroppers and the grandson of people born into slavery—became the first American track-and-field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympic Games... [but] only white athletes were invited to the White House."
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Wow. Look at the winter waves on the North Shore of Oʻahu today. Gorgeous photo by
@Bevsonthebeach
(original here: )
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Things to do right now instead of Twitter or sleep:
•Watch “Rear Window”
•Read every Linda Gregg poem
•Listen to “Gimme the Loot”
•Bask in the moonlight
•Hear the very last crickets
•Make a quesadilla
•Read ancient magazines
•Dillydally
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A powerful call to action from
@JonHaidt
: End the phone-based childhood now.
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development. It’s not too late to fix it for them.
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Here’s
@elainaplott
on Katie Britt and the transfixing weirdness of that speech coming from someone who previously had a reputation for being above the fray of MAGA theatrics
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“This is what far-right fear merchants like Tucker Carlson fail to grasp: The immigrants demonized by his “Great Replacement” rhetoric are now, in some respects, likelier to vote Republican than the people they are supposedly replacing.”
New
@TimAlberta
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Here's
@brianstelter
on this volatile moment in media, and the demise of HLN. I like his shopping mall analogy.
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And always worth reading
@JuddApatow
’s interview with
@MelBrooks
, who talks about the great blessing of his dearest friends—Norman Lear among them.
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Someone has made me a pocketbook to take with me to work events. Front and back:
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Here's
@galbeckerman
with a scoop: Pen America has now canceled its annual World Voices festival, after having just called off a separate literary awards ceremony.
"It now seems entirely possible that PEN America may not survive this episode."
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Hello to my fellow Americans who are trying to interpret their Italian grandmothers’ Thanksgiving recipes
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Must-read of the morning. Totally fascinating:
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"The Biden method is often messy... But over his career, a pattern keeps reasserting itself. Just after he is dismissed as a relic, he pulls off his greatest successes."
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This is exceptionally lovely. A dreamy story about a woman who collects the private observations of ordinary people from out of time.
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How do you spell the abbreviation for "the usual"?
As in: I'll have the uzhe
Gimme the yoozh please
We'll take the youj
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I wrote about the windowless, time-killing casino of chaos that is Twitter:
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This is wonderful.
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Coffee so strong it will make you want to “dive, open-mouthed, into a swimming pool filled with sweet cream.”
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Published moments ago, here’s
@andersen
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"Few leaders have so visibly enjoyed being president as Joe Biden."
@GrahamDavidA
on a man who loves getting heckled:
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Well, that was (by far) the coolest thing I have ever seen in my entire life.
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Until Trump releases his tax returns, FEC filings are the key documents for insight into his finances.
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