Your Mid-Week Experiment
Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free.
Let’s get right to it:
You will never look at ham, Slack chats, or France the same way after reading this. h/t Frank Spring (free link)
“[Y]oung men haven't stopped caring about democracy. They've stopped expecting anything from a system that speaks at them but never seems to listen.” (John Della Volpe)
Pete Buttigieg “offers something like a grand unified field theory of the Democratic Party’s failures, opportunities, and existential anxieties.” h/t Brian Stansbury (free link)
This gave me better perspective on why the “Biden is old” problem was actually a real scandal.
As surprised as I am that I clicked on a DaveBro essay, I’m even more surprised that I read the whole dang thing and shocked that I am sharing it. (gift link)
This report from the happiest country on earth was lovely, smart, a little sad, and strangely calming. (gift link)
Not sure where this is going, but it’s a great premise.
Watched this for book research (IYKYK), but ended up hating this movie all on its own.
Kids, do you like gunfighters? Is Tombstone your favorite movie? Most importantly, are you going to be in Dallas on June 7? Then, after buying The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild by Bryan Burrough, you’re going to want to come to this:
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Buy the book Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick banned from the Bullock Texas History Museum: Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of the American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and myself is out from Penguin Random House.