The Weekend’s Reading, August 26–27, 2017

I didn’t post it.

Trump

Monique Judge, The Root, Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to Donald Trump, Writes ‘Blunt Resignation Letter’ and Leaves Administration (August 25, 2017)

Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, Trump Called Out a Republican Senator Because He Doesn’t Understand How Any of This Works (August 25, 2017)

Jeff Shesol, The New Yorker, Trump Abandons the Bully Pulpit (August 24, 2017) — this is good

Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, Why Donald Trump Pardoned Joe Arpaio (August 26, 2017)

Aimée Lutkin, The Slot, John Kelly Is Desperately Trying to Keep Donald Trump From Knowing Anything (August 24, 2017) — you knew this, but: he is a child

Fonts

Bobby Finger, Jezebel, Even the Dumbest Us Weekly Headlines Look Great In New Yorker Font (August 24, 2017)

Clothes

Megan Reynolds, The Muse, No One Wants to Wear a Going-Out Top Ever Again (August 23, 2017)

Louise Linton

Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, Louise Linton Isn’t Mad. You’re Mad (August 22, 2017) — this is great

Megan Reynolds, The Slot, Louise Linton Is Sorry About Her Shameless Instagram Post and Rude Reply (August 23, 2017) — spoiler: no she isn’t

Journalism

John Nichols, The Nation, What ‘The Village Voice’ Taught Us About Speaking Truth to Power (August 23, 2017)

Politics

Nate Silver, Five Thirty Eight, 7 Rules For Reading Trump’s Approval Rating (August 24, 2017)

Jared Keller, Pacific Standard, Welcome to the New Age of Anarcho-Fascism (August 25, 2017)

Branko Marcetic, In These Times, Don’t Coddle Liberal Politicians Like Kamala Harris — History Shows They Should Be Pressured (August 23, 2017) — I’d like to think this is an obvious point, but I guess not

Ghosts

Sadie Stein, The Paris Review, Harry: A Ghost Story (August 25, 2017)

Veils

Rafia Zakaria, The Paris Review, Putting on the Veil: Boys Invade an All-Girls School (August 23, 2017)

Music

Briana Younger, Pitchfork, Daniel Caesar: Freudian (August 26, 2017)

Alfred Soto, Pitchfork, Filthy Friends: Invitation (August 26, 2017) — Corin Tucker + Peter Buck???

Rob Harvilla, The Ringer, Sam Hunt Is the Future of Country Music (August 25, 2017)

Jem Aswad, Variety, Album Review: The War on Drugs’ ‘A Deeper Understanding’ (August 25, 2017)

Eric Harvey, The New Yorker, An Obsessive Guide to Music Played at the Gap in the Nineties and Early Aughts (August 25, 2017)

Crime

Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, What Will Be Preet Bharara’s Legacy? (August 24, 2017)

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, Why the Bundys and Their Heavily Armed Supporters Keep Getting Away with It (August 25, 2017) — their white

Movies

Sheila O’Malley, Roger Ebert.com, Beach Rats (August 25, 2017)

Glenn Kenny, Roger Ebert.com, Bushwick (August 25, 2017)

Simon Abrams, Roger Ebert.com, The Villainess (August 25, 2017)

Scout Tafoya, Roger Ebert.com, Birth of the Dragon (August 25, 2017)

K. Austin Collins, The Ringer, ‘Beach Rats’ Is a Sexual Coming-of-Age Story That Crackles With the Unknown (August 25, 2017)

Richard Brody, The New Yorker, The Misunderstood Ambition of “Hudson Hawk” (August 24, 2017)

Richard Brody, The New Yorker, Steven Soderbergh’s Tangy, Folksy Return with “Logan Lucky” (August 24, 2017)

Bannon

Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, How Steve Bannon Lost the Battle for the Soul of Trumpism (August 23, 2017)

Afghanistan

Rafia Zakaria, The Baffler, General McMaster and the Miniskirts (August 24, 2017)

Copy

Kyle Paoletta, The Baffler, Élite Politesse (August 23, 2017) — on The New Yorker’s famous style

LA

Linda Poon, Pacific Standard, L.A. Is Testing a New, Communal Approach to Fighting Homelessness (August 24, 2017)

Jokes

Dennis Young, The Awl, Clay Travis’s ESPN Joke, Workshopped (August 23, 2017)

Websites

Kevin Roderick, LA Observed, Memo: New LA Times publisher drops web widget (August 25, 2017) — this is good; the LAT website is misery

Law

Jedediah Purdy, n+1, Laundered Violence (August 23, 2017) — on the violence inherent in law

Religion

Jordan Ritter Conn, The Ringer, “You Don’t Make Deals With God” (August 25, 2017)

Tennis

Chris Almeida, The Ringer, Alexander Zverev Is Not Like the Next Big Things Who Came Before Him (August 25, 2017)

Baseball

Michael Baumann, The Ringer, Archie Bradley Doesn’t Want to Be the Best Reliever in Baseball — but He Is (August 23, 2017)

Michael Baumann, The Ringer, Is Boston’s Rafael Devers Better Than New York’s Aaron Judge and the Rest of Baseball’s Top Rookies? (August 25, 2017) — I don’t disagree with any of this except maybe Moncada

Basketball

Paolo Uggetti, The Ringer, Why Do So Many NBA Teams Try to Trade Their Stars for Klay Thompson? (August 24, 2017)

Media

Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, Why Sage Steele Needs to Go Sit Down and Stare Longingly at the Stirring Teaspoon (August 25, 2017) — it took me until the end of the article to realize, dummy me, that that’s a Get Out reference

Monique Judge, The Grapevine, Dear Stacey Dash: Go Sit Your Ass Down Somewhere (August 24, 2017)

Gustavo Turner, LA Weekly, Tattooed-Porn Queen Joanna Angel on Why “the Stepbrother” Is Porn’s New “Pizza Guy” (August 23, 2017)

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