It’s been about six weeks since I’ve posted a reading list so it’s pretty long.
Must Read/Watch
- Meaghan Day, The Banality of Brett Kavanaugh
The guys like Brett Kavanaugh who run the show have no special qualities or insights that should oblige us to put up with their bullshit. They would hate for us to realize that.
- Andre Perry, Why Squirrel Hill Is a Target for White Supremacists
As a black boy growing up in Pittsburgh, I always felt welcome in Squirrel Hill. White nationalists hate the inclusion and diversity that it represents.
A German WWI veteran reflects upon his part in the war:
How do you live with yourself, after killing another man? What would you have done in WWI? Visit https://t.co/qjuGRrjxFO to discover more. pic.twitter.com/BtoqkmVoV9
— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) November 3, 2018
Should Read/Watch
- Merrie Najimy, Are You All In to Fund Our Future?
- Jill Lepore, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Unlikely Path to the Supreme Court
- Martin Boucher and Philip Loring, Climate change is more than a tech problem, so we need more than a tech solution
- Jason Hickel, Soothing Noah Smith’s fears about a post-growth world
- Noah Smith and Meaghan Day, “Neoliberalism vs Socialism”
- Daniel Larison, Misunderstanding Trump’s Foreign Policy
- Andrew Bacevich, The Forgotten Lessons of Black Hawk Down
War and Foreign Policy
- Daniel Larison, ‘You Are Fueling This War, So Stop Fueling This War’
Transportation
- James Aloisi, Strapped to the status quo express: We can’t keep running away from the need for new revenue
- Andy Singer, Driverless Cars and the Cult of Technology
Politics
- Charley on the MTA, Are you a Democrat for Baker? What are you thinking?
- Charley on the MTA, Gratitude for Jay Gonzalez
- David Dayen, He Was the Resistance Inside the Obama Administration (Ed.: Dayen is referring – unfavorably – to Tim Geithner.)
- Hannah Dreier, I’ve Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year. Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets Most Wrong.
- Trip Gabriel, Floods. Wildfires. Yet Few Candidates Are Running on Climate Change.
- Craig LeMoult, Environmentalists Have Their Favorite Candidates, But That Doesn’t Matter If They Rarely Cast A Ballot
- Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point (President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.)
- Leah Hampton, What you are getting wrong about Appalachia
- Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward, What a Rural Maine House Race Can Teach the Left (Ed.: She won!)
Brett Kavanaugh and his Advocates
- Michelle Goldberg, Pigs All the Way Down: Kavanaugh and our rotten ruling class.
- Briahna Gray and Camille Baker, The Unbearable Dishonesty of Brett Kavanaugh
- Nathan J. Robinson, How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying
- Daniel Larison, Kavanaugh and the Rule of Law
- Emily Atkin, How Brett Kavanaugh Could Help Trump Weaken Mercury Pollution Regulations (The president wants to let coal plants emit more of the neurotoxin. The Supreme Court nominee’s views on the subject are already clear.)
Culture
- Alan Jacobs, The Watchmen (What became of the Christian intellectuals?)
Environment
- Kyla Mandel, Zinke is officially rolling back offshore oil and gas production safety rules (Regulations are being removed to support Trump’s “energy dominance” goals.)
- Bob Berwyn, Global Warming Is Messing with the Jet Stream. That Means More Extreme Weather.
- Oliver Milman, Meet the ‘climate refugees’ who already had to leave their homes
- Frederick Hewett, What Happens To The Charles River If 100-Year Storms Are The New Normal?
- Ajay Singh Chaudhary, It’s Already Here (Left-wing climate realism and the Trump climate change memo)
- Ryan Cooper, The case against despair on climate change
- Dr. Kristen DeAngelis, A Scientific Exploration of Climate Change and Soil Health
Energy
- John Weaver, Massachusetts’ SMART program is a go, but the details matter
- Jason Deign, Why Is Vehicle-to-Grid Taking So Long to Happen?
- Tux Turkel, Portland hub monitors 425 solar projects, 6 wind farms: Longroad Energy Partners’ dozen technicians staff the remote operations center around the clock.
- William Driscoll, Five new governors aim for 100% renewables
Ending on a Positive Note
- Chad Orzel, On “Slow Light” and the Nobel Prize
- Craig Edwards, Mookie Betts’ Historic Season
- Fryeburg Fair (Ed.: Already looking forward to 2019!)