Friday Links

But why?

Photo by K. Ivoutin (CC BY 2.0)

• Do that whole Medium, Twitter, and Facebook thing.
• This analysis of Maximum Leader’s minuscule worldview and boundless egotism is well worth one more trip into an analyzed-to-death psyche. (The Baffler)
• Why beer and peanuts are a classic pairing (MEL)
• Ross Perot’s political career laid a blueprint for Trump. At some point the US needs to ask itself why people keep looking to dangerous ignoramuses in desperate attempts to break the wheel of a political system that fails pretty much everyone. Or not. What do I know? (The Dollop)
• The comfort of fantastical geography when the real world is difficult to parse (Longreads)
• The problem with the Dylann Roofs of the world is that the people who create the atmosphere for a Dylann Roof don’t see him as anything to do with them. (GQ)

Dane A. Wisher is based in Brooklyn.