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2 Jun, 6 tweets, 3 min read
The market for anti-Biden books is ice cold. My latest story, on the state of the conservative publishing industry: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
“In the past, it’s been like taking candy from a baby to write a book about the Democratic president,” one frustrated conservative editor told me. Now? “Nobody is trying.” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
The popular right-wing caricature of Biden as an addled old man doesn't lend itself to book-length villainization. He has "a deeply nonthreatening persona,” says @benshapiro. “You kind of feel bad attacking him, honestly, because it feels like elder abuse" theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
.@JonahDispatch shared some candid thoughts on why it was so easy to make Hillary Clinton seem "sinister" to a certain kind of conservative reader. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
With Biden proving an inadequate villain, conservative book publishers are looking for new bogeyman. Top candidates, according to the people I'm talking to: Anthony Fauci, Hunter Biden, AOC, and Kamala Harris. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
One conservative book editor cited a unique challenge in making @AOC appear sufficiently villainous: “It’s hard to find a bad picture of her to put on the cover.” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

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13 May
Conservatives want to weaponize his bitterness. Liberals are inviting him over for dinner. And a generation of jurisprudence could come down to an unnerving question: Is Brett Kavanaugh out for revenge?

My new profile, in the June issue of The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Friends told me Kavanaugh still privately seethes over his confirmation: “I assume when he’s lying in bed at night, it’s hard not to think about it,” one told me. “He was really angry at Democrats for what they did to him and his family," another said. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
But Kavanaugh also desperately wants to gain readmission into polite society. “I don’t think Thomas or Alito gives a shit what The New York Times says about them,” one friend told me. “But I think Brett does.” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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4 May
In the early weeks of the pandemic, I wrote about what then seemed like a strange new phenomenon: Conservatives turning COVID restrictions into a new front in the culture war. 1/ theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Today, with millions of Americans getting vaccinated daily, @emmaogreen expertly captures another phenomenon: Liberals signaling their own political identities with extreme COVID caution—in many cases going well beyond public health recommendations. 2/ theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
“I spent four years fighting Trump because he was so anti-science. I spent the last year fighting people who I normally would agree with … desperately trying to inject science into school reopening, and completely failed.” 3/
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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1 May
Early on in the pandemic, I started a new tradition with my kids where every Saturday morning we'd go out for donuts and hold a "music appreciation" class on the drive, focusing on a different band/artist each week.
My kids are pretty young so this was not like an intensive education. I tried to keep it fun, choosing just a few catchy/accessible songs for each artist. (My selfish motivation was that I desperately needed a break from Kidz Bop.)
After a couple months, I started keeping a playlist of all the songs we'd "learned." Every Saturday, I would play songs and let the kids guess the band/artist. Even as the playlist grew to 150+ songs, it got harder and harder to stump them.
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30 Apr
Important piece by @juliettekayyem on why the US can't wait for herd immunity before reclaiming normalcy—in part, because it may never come. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
More than a year into the pandemic, @TheAtlantic continues to produce the best, liveliest, most vital COVID coverage. Two more examples just from today...
.@kait_tiffany on the extreme weirdness of "vaccine culture" theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
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30 Apr
Like all good BYU fans, I'm enthusiastically rooting for Zach Wilson tonight and quietly praying that he somehow ends up on literally any team other than the Jets.
[sigh]
On the bright side, Zach Wilson about to become by far the most eligible bachelor in NYC’s Mormon singles scene.
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16 Apr
"President Biden is quietly maintaining one of the Trump era’s most discriminatory policies and a key element of Trump advisers’ broader agenda of making America white again: the throttling of refugee admissions." Important piece by @AdamSerwer: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
In 2016, Obama's last year in office, the US admitted 85K refugees.

In 2020, Trump's last year, the US admitted only about 12K.

In 2021, Biden's first year, the US is on track to admit even fewer: only about 2K so far.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
This is quite revealing: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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