This Week's Writing 8/24/24

The DNC inside and outside, Kershaw's The Hitler Myth, and more!

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Anyway! Here’s what I published this week.

Politics

DNC protestors ties Palestinian liberation to progressive causes. (Prism Reports)

Why “We’re not going back!” is the perfect theme for Harris’ campaign. (Public Notice)

Ian Kershaw’s The Hitler Myth vs. the Trump myth (EIH)

Why isn’t Trump campaigning hard? (EIH)

Cultural Criticism

James Merrill and the queer carpet. (EIH)

Green Lantern: the first super-Reynolds. (Splice Today)

In Challengers, Zendaya gets to compete. (EIH)

The lonesome country folk of Gillian Welch and David Rawling’s Woodlands. (No Depression)

The Clean-Up Crew is a campy parodic heist mess, in a good way. (Chicago Reader)

Esme Patterson makes easy folk music that will cut you. (Chicago Reader)

Poetry

A poem that came to me while I was falling asleep. (dadakuku)

Insult Self-Help
Mindfulness
is my middle name,
you perfidious
kraken.