Links for May 7th
The history of the American right, Roman busts, the Mets, Gen Z's buying habits, poster dunks, good quotes
Hope you’ve had a smooth couple weeks here. I reject the rain.
Links
The most relaxing half-hour of my life recently has been reading Caity Weaver’s piece about an ill-advised trip in a van while I was on the subway en route to and from the Tribeca Bed, Bath & Beyond. I literally was laughing aloud on the subway.
Meanwhile, also at the Times, a woman found an ancient Roman bust at a Goodwill in Texas; she has a real flair for subtly amazing quotes in an overall delightful story: “He had chips to the base. He had clear repairs. He looks old. I’ve been to museums. I’ve seen Roman portrait heads before.”
Tough but thorough story here about Gen Z using those Afterpay, etc., payment plans that have cropped up on basically all clothing retailers.
Recommend this episode of Ezra Klein’s podcast with Matt Continetti on the history of the right, and reconsidering how populism worked in the 20th century.
Also thought this was a sharp little piece about this weird stalemate between Biden and Trump about whether they’ll each run again, and what that freeze portends.
Apparently the Utah Jazz play Hava Nagila after wins at home??? (Good quotes, as you might imagine, therein.)
Enjoyed this little interview on thirty years of a New York Italian restaurant, which also has some solid quotes and is a general Nice Story Alert situation.
This series of interviews with the guys who get dunked on is mostly about how social media really messes with NBA players’ heads (a worthy subject), but it also features this amazing quote from a German player: “Whenever there's a highlight, people get tagged, there will be comments and this and that. But this internet world is not the real world.”
The Mets have this incredible TV broadcast, and you can hear part of it just with them rally six runs in the ninth against the Phillies (and we love to see anyone do that in Philadelphia), a clinic in sports broadcasting here (and this isn’t even the half of it, they really shine in the downtime moments).
Light book commentary
Very light.
A note on all this
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