Secretly Ironic

Today’s newsletter is about the entrenched interests of the status quo, the fear of change, and kittens.

Today’s newsletter is about genocide, with a bonus set of links to important articles about economic crisis, climate crisis, and voter suppression. There’s also some nonhorrible stuff in it, like funny Tweets and some very cute dogs, but mostly it’s very upsetting and you shouldn’t read it.

Today’s newsletter is about re-examining the subtext of school lessons, the intractable screwed-up-ness of the carceral state, and a goddamn hilarious story about someone’s Desi uncle who ordered too much rice from the grocery.

Today’s newsletter is about how 1992’s “Killing in the Name” is still relevant.

Today’s newsletter has a lengthy metaphor about the Gabriel García Márquez’s novel of that title.

Today’s newsletter begins with Ecuadorean mask squads and ends with doom, with a kitten chaser.

Today’s newsletter is about the bleak expanse of sameness and horror stretching before us endlessly to the horizon.

Today’s newsletter is about doomscrolling, fascism, and gibbons. Also an interview with Jia Tolentino and a couple good articles in Foreign Affairs.

Today’s newsletter is about Bruce Springsteen and cliches and puppies.

Today’s newsletter is about the fallacy of Whig historiography.