Links for February 5th
Henry James, the RNC, The Gilded Age, Chinese restaurants, photos from the non-winter period
Hello, hope you’ve had a smooth week. We’re in that grim part of winter, aren’t we?
Links
Really enjoyed this look at the last few years of Henry James’s life, during WWI, when he basically lost it over the U.S. not coming to England’s aid.
You presumably saw the news that the RNC censured Cheney and Kinzinger, but Josh Dawsey reported arguably bigger news, which is that they also quietly suspended a rule so they can spend against Cheney (and possibly send volunteers to Wyoming). Besides the obvious, it also made me wonder how the RNC will treat the theoretically open 2024 primary; it would still be a pretty bitter fight if they treated Trump like an “incumbent,” and the current party committees can’t really stop a nominee, but they can create some heavy privileges for a preferred candidate, like if they did early joint-fundraising agreements (which allows campaigns to raise massive sums with much more ease), or went in a certain direction about what kind of primary debates, if any, there are.
Meanwhile, this is interesting about how much the terrain has shifted over the last 10 years in what kinds of groups matter in Republican congressional primaries.
Thought this was a thoughtful interview with Sybrina Fulton, ten years after Trayvon Martin’s death.
My colleagues reported that Hugo Boss was using a cotton supplier connected to Xinjiang, whom Hugo Boss quietly ended their relationship with — and here, one of them shows how they did the reporting work, which is really interesting.
I am not actually watching The Gilded Age, but I have been reading Jessica Morgan’s recaps of the episodes, because you get a lot of history, and something about the way she writes always just delights and cracks me up, like so:
I’m sort of concerned that no one realizes that Agnes is such an uptight bitch because she had to take her youthful tenderness and sell it to the highest bidder so they weren’t all destitute?!
In nice things to look at, these photos that are in sunny, non-winter Italy.
In nice things to read, this story on Uncle Lou, a Cantonese restaurant in Manhattan’s Chinatown that a longtime resident opened because he HATED being retired and wanted to see the community again.
Light book commentary
Very light.
A note on all this
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