The Experiment

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported, mid-week edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free. Let’s get right to it: La Maledizione.In which my father is called “a conscience for Oregon,” which is fine and all, but the pay’s lousy. (free link) Men Are Betting the Rent & Calling It a Strategy. A quarter of Gen Z dudes think gambling is a legitimate, long-term investment strategy? My dudes. Good one from Bill McCamley.

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported, mid-week edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free. Let’s get right to it: Kansas Put a Bounty on Trans People. In which M. Gessen draws specific and convincing parallels between Kansas and Nazi Germany while avoiding hyperbole. (gift link) This recipe for stone fruit caprese is gonna get made again. (free link) I’m Not Going to Lie About My Neck.

Welcome to the weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. I know I promised to write about the real story of the First Thanksgiving, but I ran across an oddity on Texas’ fifth grade reading list that further illustrates the pitfalls of teaching apocryphal histories to children. Fear not, we’ll close that first loop next week. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free.

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported, mid-week edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free. Let’s get right to it: It’s not just about what we say, but whether others will listen. This, from John McWhorter, had several “holy crap” moments. (free link) Love Anyway: A Substack Manifesto. Looking forward to seeing where Sarah Hepola takes this. (free link) We’ve Officially Entered the Twilight of Late-Stage Trumpism.

Welcome to the weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free. Thanks for reading! The ad starts on the face of a handsome, slender man. The commercial has the usual trappings of a campaign ad—a dark background, the right sort of clothes—but there is something unexpected.

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported, mid-week edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free. Let’s get right to it: Ken Paxton Now Has to Do the Unthinkable: Try. Pretty much nails the state of things. (free link) The predictable disgrace of the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Welcome to the weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free. Thanks for reading! You’ve probably seen the news that the Texas State Board of Education is now going to require that the Bible be taught in public schools.

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported, mid-week edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free. Let’s get right to it: The Experiment is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I Got Slopped. In which some jack wagon uses AI to “write” a biography of a New York Times writer who goes down a rabbit hole to find him.

Welcome to the weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free.

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported, mid-week edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free. Let’s get right to it: Big Boys’ Lessons (Pt. 1): Start Your Own Thing, Even When No One’s Watching. I got to Austin too late to hear the Big Boys; Chad Swiatecki finds the heartbeat of Austin’s creative community in a documentary about the band. (free link) The Decline of Deviance 2.