A Bronx Upstart. A Logo With a Tilt. Now It’s Everywhere. by Shane Goldmacher I wrote about the inspired messaging of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s inaugural political campaign three years ago, right after her upset victory in the primary set her … Continue reading Outside Reading — One of Us edition
The Girl in the Kent State Photo by Patricia McCormick More than fifty years after the Kent State shootings, Patricia McCormick profiles the girl who was at the center of the most famous photo of the government’s crime against the … Continue reading Outside Reading — This Summer I Heard the Drumming edition
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie: The oral history by Adam Carston The big-screen iteration of Mystery Science Theater 3000 hardly seems to have enough significance to merit a lengthy oral history on the occasion of its anniversary, but I’m … Continue reading Outside Reading — This Island Earth Doesn’t Shine for Me Anymore
World’s Largest Trivia Contest Returns to Stevens Point by Jon Fuller The only things I’ve read this week are directly related to the strange pastime I’m participating in this weekend. So this regular Staurday exercise in linking to the words … Continue reading Outside Reading — Pursuing Trivia edition
The Storm by Luke Mogelson It is three months since the U.S. Capitol was assaulted by frothing zealots in red caps and t-shirts with slogans of proud bigotry. It was a criminal act and an affront on the very principle … Continue reading Outside Reading — Criminal Insurrection edition
If Y2K-Era Movie Theater Carpets Could Talk by Foster Kamer Now this is the sort of narrow-niche article that I crave. Writing for the blog of independent film distributor A24, Foster Kamer offers an appreciation for the garish aesthetic of … Continue reading Outside Reading — Tripping Halls edition
Ten Questions the Press Should Have Asked President Biden by Zeynep Tufekci It’s easy to pinpoint — and become enraged by — the failure of the White House press corps during the four years they utterly failed to properly confront … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Wrong Questions edition
The Year Has Taught Me a Lot About Nostalgia by Leslie Jamison Writing for The New York Times, as part of a set of reflections on one full year of living with the pandemic, Leslie Jamison pointedly addresses the problematic … Continue reading Outside Reading — Misty Watercolor Memories edition
Seattle’s Virus Success Shows What Could Have Been by Mike Baker “If the rest of the United States had kept pace with Seattle, the nation could have avoided more than 300,000 coronavirus deaths.” That sentence, from this piece of New … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Emerald Standard
Kelly Loeffler Just Lost Her WNBA Team to a Player She Refused to Meet by Dave Zirin Of the many humiliations suffered by Kelly Loeffler in recent months — all of which, I’m sure, she sloughed off thanks to insulation … Continue reading Outside Reading — Speak Up and Dribble edition
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