“Nice countries, you know like Denmark, Switzerland? Do we have any people coming in from Denmark? How about Switzerland? How about Norway?” nytimes.com/2024/04/07/us/…

“Name any terms, reverend sir, even to the halving of my kingdom; but banish this calamity, spare the sun!”

Nothing like minor league ball opening weekend! ⁦Bowie Baysox⁩

What he said 👇🏼

“The right-wing rage we need to worry about is not coming from deep-red rural areas. It is coming from cities and suburbs.”
A dissenting look at WHITE RURAL RAGE: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

A belated congratulations to the great Jennifer Senior, whose searing essays are just on the right side between balm and pain.

Thanks for reading it, Carol! And the more Notre Dame Alumni who pick it up, the better — especially ND ‘93. ☘️

Reading Carlos Lozada's Washington Book and loving it. That is all. If you, like me, wondered if it was worth buying a book that was a collection of essays, the answer is yes.

Happy publication day to Becca Rothfeld, author of the new essay collection ALL THINGS ARE TOO SMALL. Here’s a rave ⁦New York Times Books⁩ review: nytimes.com/2024/03/25/boo…

“Lozada has a literary critic’s sharp eye, and an alertly cocked ear to go with it.”
Grateful for this generous review of THE WASHINGTON BOOK in the ⁦The Guardian⁩ ⁦Guardian Books⁩ amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Basilica di San Marco, Venezia, Easter Sunday

“It’s no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think, to say it in your own words, without compromise.” thefp.com/p/the-prophets…

And here it is:

“Does the practice of literary quotation depend on a stable set of common references? Or does it function as a kind of substitute for a shared body of knowledge that may never have existed at all?”
⁦32 across⁩ nytimes.com/2024/03/28/boo…

“When journalists say ‘narrative,’ they mean ‘idea.’ And it is always an idea they’ve received from someone else.” ⁦William Deresiewicz⁩ persuasion.community/p/how-pseudo-i…

I scored 22 out of 41 on the George Will baseball quiz. FYI: It’s not easy.
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Thanks to CSPAN’s Sunday Q&A for this hour-long conversation about THE WASHINGTON BOOK. Nothing beats talking books with Peter Slen! Watch it tonight at 8pm EST.

Thanks to CSPAN and Peter Slen for this hour-long conversation about THE WASHINGTON BOOK — watch it tonight at 8pm EST.

THE WASHINGTON BOOK spotted in the wild at ⁦⁦Old Town Books⁩! (h/t ⁦Steven Ginsberg⁩)

Nothing like Domenica Delle Palme (Palm Sunday) in Venice, with the Latin Mass: