Editor at New York magazine and Condé Nast in a previous life.
Also at Shakespeare on Politics on that other platform and
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Ah, sad, sad, sad. I knew David Hockney would leave us some day.
I found him so inspiring. His book of interviews with Martin Gayford is essential reading for anyone with a creative soul (i.e. everybody).
Sleeper factor this fall:
NEW EPISODE: Donald Trump is waging a three front war on voting: restricting voter registration through proof-of-citizenship laws, controlling who gets to use mail-in voting via the U.S. Postal Service and laying the groundwork for another "stop the count" campaign. youtu.be/b28A7nduT8c?...
“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks.”
Crashing to record-low polling numbers and damning signs of weakness, the likes of which (as Trump loves to say) have never been seen before.
“When I run over in my mind the various commonwealths flourishing today, so help me God, I can see in them nothing but a conspiracy of the rich, who are fattening up their own interests under the name and title of the commonwealth.”
“Utopia,” by Thomas More
“Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.”
“Tiger at the Gates,” by Jean Giraudoux
“Misogyny, performative defensiveness, distract-and-deny...Female journalists have no answer except to tolerate it and keep coming back for more. There must be a better approach, not only for the journalists who withstand this abuse but also for the public, which deserves to get straight answers.”
