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Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

Oct 22, 2019

“Old people can’t open new tabs and it’s fueling our descent into hell”

“It should go without saying that, outside of maybe the executive level, there are very few grandparents working at tech companies. Because of this, there’s rarely anyone in the room who’s truly able to…

Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

Dec 18, 2018

“To Donald Trump, the American City Will Always Be A Dystopic, ‘Eighties Movies’ New York”

“Calling this a “wave” or even a “spike” is accurate in retrospect, but it doesn’t capture the climate for those who lived through it. We call a pattern a wave because we know…

Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

May 24, 2018

“Trump and the Evangelical Temptation”

“Fundamentalism embraced traditional religious views, but it did not propose a return to an older evangelicalism. Instead it responded to modernity in ways that cut it off from its own past. In reacting against higher criticism, it became simplistic and…

Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

Mar 10, 2018

“I asked my student why he voted for Trump. The answer was thoughtful, smart, and terrifying.”

“Peter knows where he stands. He remembers multiple factories and small businesses “shutting down or laying off. Next thing you know, half of downtown” in the bigger…

Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

Jan 6, 2018

“A Tragedy of Manners”

“we instinctively abjure reckoning directly with the subject of manners — and yet it goes to the heart of everything that is happening. There’s a culture-wide unease with the discussion of manners — which in turn conceals a larger and far more momentous breakdown in a viable understanding…

Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

Nov 18, 2017

“Was Francis Fukuyama the first man to see Trump coming?”

“For a start, it is a gross misreading of The End of History to see it as any kind of triumphalism, let alone one subsequently disproved by the rise of radical Islam, or the stalling of capitalist democracies post-2008. It was…

Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

Oct 26, 2017

“The Gravity Is Strong”

“We’ve all heard the old saw: It’s never the crime, it’s the cover-up. This is almost never true. Covering scandals for any length of time is enough to tell you that. People are generally able to make judgments about how much trouble they’re in. We think the ‘cover up’ is worse than the…

Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

Oct 13, 2017

“What It Means When a Pro-Trump Troll Apologizes”

“Trolls often justify their offensive behavior by insisting that they are simply doing it for “the lulz” — the laughs — and that they use offensive language as sticks to jab into the soft spots in our culture. I used to believe that such a…

Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

Oct 8, 2017

“Read This From a Teleprompter: Donald Trump Is Unfit to Serve”

“even the most significant condemnations have been rendered impotent. Following the Phoenix rally, former national intelligence director James Clapper gave a wildly upsetting interview to Don Lemon. When the CNN host…

Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

Oct 6, 2017

“The Spy Revolt Against Trump Begins”

“As I’ve previously explained, that salacious dossier is raw intelligence, an explosive amalgam of fact and fantasy, including some disinformation planted by the Kremlin to obscure this already murky case. Now SIGINT confirms that some of the non-salacious parts…