The Low Culture That Brought Us Trump
What You Missed This Week From The Bulwark
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The Low Culture That Brought Us to Trump
On this week’s episode I’m joined by Ross Benes, the author of the forthcoming book 1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times. It comes out in a few weeks and I hope you take a gander at it; we spent most of our time discussing the ways in which professional wrestling and the Insane Clown Posse help explain…
ICYMI: Here are links to each newsletter section so you can quickly get back to that edition you may have missed this week.
Morning Shots - Triad - Huddled Masses - Press Pass - Bulwark Goes to Hollywood - The Opposition - False Flag
The Shocking Reemergence of Candace Owens
MY FIRST CLUE THAT SOMETHING WAS AFOOT was at a dinner party in early February when my left-leaning, normie girlfriend proclaimed—seemingly out of nowhere—that Justin Baldoni had been framed.
The Constitutional Crisis Is Here
THE LONG-AWAITED CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS has now arrived. It is time for a court to say so.
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Fairness Is Overrated
I know the Republic is falling and we have more pressing concerns. I know this isn’t important, in the grand scheme of things. At all. But I want to take a minute to talk about kids’ sports. I hope you’ll indulge me.
🚨OVERTIME🚨
Happy Saturday! I’m sorry to miss those of you attending the live event tonight in Phoenix. I hear we’ve got a great show lined up for you. I had a long planned, can’t-miss event here in the Queen City. I was excited to finally try Jeff Ruby’s The Precinct, and Mr. Ruby did not disappoint.
March Madness is here, and none of my teams made it and my bracket is beyond busted. But we’ve had some amazing games so far. Local team St. X had an amazing play-in game, but busted out in the first round last night. At least baseball is less than a week away! Excited for the Guardians this year, and the return of Tito Francona here for the Reds.
National Review Dances in Dissonance… How “Principled Conservatism” Became an Excuse for Subverting the Constitution (Mike Brock, Notes from the Circus)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch office at City Hall… sees attention from a former tenant Nicholas J.C. Pistor isn’t messing around. (Or is he?) (STL Mag)
I've Become A Middle-Aged Skateboarder… Adam Brown writes: “My life became so much richer … and I even learned [it] could unhook me from my anxious thoughts, something I struggled with from an early age.” (HuffPo)
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Sorely missing the list of poignant and (sometimes) silly links at the end of Overtime :(
They often delivered a welcome distraction from the madness and introduced me to important stuff I would not have otherwise come across.
Please think about bringing it back.
My home team won in Cleveland last night!