i wrote about Love Island

Nahhh The choice of words and adjectives by the writer is so interesting yet messy

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VC's Quiet Storm #1: Mingus, Sade, Annahstasia, Dr. King, James Weldon Johnson. vcunningham.substack.com/p/scenes-in-th…

“Love Island USA” is about the friends and the love matches you make in the villa, but, “before long, America’s teeming waves of restless voters come rudely into the frame,” Vinson Cunningham writes. nyer.cm/DH9xALQ

Breaking News: Israeli troops killed more than 60 Palestinians after crowds gathered near a border crossing where aid trucks enter, Gaza officials said. nyti.ms/3GRuuTp

Loved this commentary on the brain-numbing effects of AI in the The New Yorker “The preferred state, it seems, is a zoned-out semi-presence, the worker accounted for in body but absent in spirit.” newyorker.com/culture/critic…

thoughts on conspiracism and Colbert newyorker.com/culture/on-tel…

.Vinson Cunningham⁩ “a constant sandstorm of casual lies and destabilizing ambiguity keeps obscuring important facts—the kinds of facts atop which a constitutional republic, ruled by self-governing, notionally informed citizens, is supposed to be built.” newyorker.com/culture/on-tel…

After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…

i love you Richard Brody. everybody must read this. newyorker.com/culture/the-le…

From an essay I wrote last summer, on the Columbia protests. The kids were right, about Gaza then, and some have paid dearly for it. Someday it will seem obvious, but only because these young people spoke first.

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner and the Lessons of Theo Huxtable | Vinson Cunningham | The New Yorker The actor, who died last week, carried the burden of representing the meritocratic Black boy par excellence, and made it look easy. newyorker.com/culture/postsc…

Malcolm-Jamal Warner and the Lessons of Theo Huxtable | Vinson Cunningham | The New Yorker The actor, who died last week, carried the burden of representing the meritocratic Black boy par excellence, and made it look easy. newyorker.com/culture/postsc…

In “The Cosby Show,” Theo Huxtable was a nicely realized character but also a lofty ideal—the meritocratic Black boy par excellence. Yet Malcolm-Jamal Warner seemed miraculously able to pull it off, Vinson Cunningham writes.

Pope Leo says Gaza ‘crushed by hunger’ as Vatican official calls for recognition of State of Palestine | Crux cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/0…

Beautiful piece by Vinson Cunningham. “He was great at playing Theo, perhaps because he was genuinely a Theo at heart.” newyorker.com/culture/postsc…

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who died last week at the age of 54, was great at playing Theo Huxtable in “The Cosby Show,” “perhaps because he was genuinely a Theo at heart,” Vinson Cunningham writes. nyer.cm/eigySUp