Ross Douthat Interview in the New Left Review ← your favorite liberal’s favorite conservative, fielding some pretty deep questions over an extensive conversation • Review essay from Commonweal on Make Your Own Job: How The Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America [2025] • From Dissent, a reflection: how can leftists tolerate that crypto-fascist Tolkien and all of his blood and soil signifiers? • From Jewish Review of Books on Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO [2025] • From the Times: “How Photograph from the Vietnam War Changed America” • From Cabinet: Hard Cases for a Handle Theory • From Literary Hub: Carver vs. Berlin • From Jewish Review of Books, an anthropologist’s field notes from the war
Review of Def Leppard’s Hysteria [1987] ← this was the first album we ever owned (out of tens of thousands to come in the subsequent decades) and for a period of time we were embarrassed by this - then for a period of time we were embarrassed by our embarrassment - now we just listen to “Run Riot” over and over. Women indeed.