This Week's Writing 7/18/26
kitty paws! also what I published this week.
I just love this picture of Eustacia’s giant paws. She is a large but appealing kitty.
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Politics
Trump’s Greenland threats are why we have no allies. (Public Notice)
It doesn’t matter what was in Graham Platner’s heart. (Sojourner’s)
Does Dem messaging even matter? w/Toby Buckle (politicalphilosophypod)
Lindsey Graham, opportunist or fascist? (EIH)
ICE’s mission is murder. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
On Nature Matters, a great anthology of global majority nature poetry. (Splice Today)
Son of Saul and a Holocaust without sense. (EIH)
Aaron Lee Tasjan’s new album celebrates the underdog. (No Depression)
Women vs. the USS Callister. (EIH)
Poetry
Timely epistle. (dadakuku)
Dead Graham
Cracker broke.
Less timely epistle. (Five Fleas)
After Liu Tsung-yüan
The birds don’t fly in these mountains now.
No footprints mark the road.One boat, one man, one straw hat
and fish beneath river snow.
From the archive
Meritocracy (In Dating) Is a Myth
Last week, journalist Ian Dunt wrote a much-discussed essay in which he argued (accurately!) that the manosphere is a poisonous farrago of lies. He added (less convincingly, in my view) that the left needs to do more to support young men who want to get laid.
