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Sunday, June 9, 2024

Conor Friedersdorf
Jun 09, 2024
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QUESTION FOR READERS:

Do you have a great travel story that you’d be willing to let me record you telling? If so, email me!

This Week’s Selections

Ibram X. Kendi Faces a Reckoning of His Own (link)

The Sins of the Educated Class (link)

Fortress Europe (link) ––“In Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania, thousands of Black people are arrested, taken to remote desert areas and abandoned.”

When Dynamite Turned Terrorism into an Everyday Threat (link) –– I fear that a drone analog to this era is ahead.

Reflections on the Dark (link)

Speech Under the Shadow of Punishment (link)

Other Items of Note

  • Megan McArdles’s eulogy for her father (link)

  • Michael Moynihan on the whitewashing of the Black Panthers (link)

  • Thomas Chatterton Williams on the beauty of the one-handed backhand

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