Look at that kitty!
Here is what I published this week.
Politics
Meritocracy is a dagger in the heart of democracy. (Revealer)
Roger Marshall is running an all-time terrible campaign in Kansas. (Public Notice)
A new book studies how the Palestinian context of RFK’s assassination has been erased. (Religion Dispatches)
Progressives are winning. (EIH)
Trump chooses bad advisors because he is a bad person. (EIH)
A convo on corruption and fascism with Crynn Johnasson and Mark Cohen. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
Kubrick traps the bad guys in The Killing. (Splice Today)
The Love of Your Life admits Covid happened. (Splice Today)
Lola runs in and out of noir. (EIH)
Zero Dark Thirty and torture as Oscar-bait. (EIH)
On Under the Skin and rape/revenge. (EIH)
Poetry
Too many similar poets. (Molecule)
The R Much Taken
Frost and Lowell and Burns and Pinsky
Herrick and Hass and Haydn and Creeley—
they bob and they sob in the selfsame shame;
all the vocabulary, just one name.
Sleepy and/or despairing poem. (Five Fleas)
it’s time to never get up again
From the archive
Track of the week
Nostalgic hyperpop ode to brutalist architecture.
