Sunday, February 28, 2021

Reading Rat - February 2021

Articles, Essays, Reviews

The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election, by Molly Ball, Time

The N-word as slur vs. the N-word as a sequence of sounds: What makes the New York Times so comfortable making black people look dim? It Bears Mentioning column, by John McWhorter>

The key to understanding the implosion of US conservatism: The Trump years exposed the split between ideological and instrumental Republicans. We are now witnessing the consequences, by Karthik Ramanna, Prospect

Texplainer: Why does Texas have its own power grid? Texplainer feature by Kate Galbraith, The Texas Tribune

What Rush Limbaugh meant to conservatives, by W. James Antle III, The Week

Joe's Dole: Pssst! They're recreating the old welfare system in the Covid bill, KausFiles #35, by Mickey Kaus

Kinky and absurd: The first AI-written play isn’t Shakespeare—but it has its moments, by Sofia Moutinho, Science

CPAC - Former President Trump at Sunday General Session, C-SPAN

Science, Politics, and COVID: Will Truth Prevail? by Scott W. Atlas, Imprimis

A Look Back at When Skiers Soared at Gordon Park, by John Gurda, Milwaukee Magazine

Church of Woke: Next American Religion? by Michael Vlahos, Humanitas

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