How about Lu Dort’s suspension is 10 games + any games in a playoff series against Denver?*
*And if they don’t play Denver through three rounds, then no Lu for the Western Conference Finals.
How about Lu Dort’s suspension is 10 games + any games in a playoff series against Denver?*
*And if they don’t play Denver through three rounds, then no Lu for the Western Conference Finals.
I thought Mark Oppenheimer did a great job interviewing Rusty Reno on his podcast for Arc.
Douthat on the recent Wuthering Heights adaptation:
“Gothic Barbie smut” best watched “not for the lust, but for the laughs.”
There’s nothing quite so vulnerable or stomach-churning as cold-call-emailing writers you admire to ask them to endorse your book.
I convinced the publisher, who last year stopped soliciting blurbs for their books, to grant me an exception for this one. They agreed, so long as I would do it myself. Sure, I said. No problem, I said.
It’s more than a little silly to feel happy for someone like Harrison Ford receiving a lifetime achievement awards … but he’s been my favorite actor since I was in pre-K, so I can’t help but cheer him on, even now.
Besides, Ford heads stuck with him in the dark days of the aughts and early 2010s, knowing he’d get his mojo back at some point. Now we just need to get him the Oscar and Emmy he so richly deserves before this “working actor” is no longer with us!
This morning I’m in CT writing on the prosperity gospel of comfortable college grads.
My copy of the latest issue of The Point arrived in the mail. Excited to dive in. I enjoyed Jon Baskin’s editorial introduction, especially the kicker:
The resulting essays [in the issue] question some of the baseline assumptions of contemporary leftism and liberalism, as Trilling implored the true friends of left-liberalism to do in his own time, while at the same time attempting to excavate their intellectual traditions for more promising—and, not unimportantly, more inspiring—paths forward. Our contention being that even if one agrees with [Ezra] Klein that it is not the job of the liberal intellectual to tell the citizens of 2050 (or 2026) where they should drive their electric cars, there remain few tasks more urgent today—for the friends and the foes of liberalism alike—than to demonstrate that there remain places worth going.
Finally watched Spielberg’s (less loosely than I expected) autobiographical film The Fabelmans. “We’re never not going to know each other, Sammy” just about reduced me to a puddle of tears.
PSA: Splintered Sun, the tenth book set in the world of Osten Ard, is due out this October. If you want to read more about the series or about its author, Tad Williams, read this.
I loved reading David Mamet about the genius of Robert Duvall.
This post by Alan Jacobs about warmaking and filmmaking is why blogs exist. A perfect instance of the genre.
Audrey Watters is always on her game, but her latest newsletter is particularly spicy.
Minus the first paragraph, this is a solid critical reflection on what makes a film conservative—or rather, whether there is such a thing as a conservative film in the first place.
Read Becca Rothfeld on the end of books coverage at The Washington Post.
I thought this profile of Rod Dreher was generous and fair across the board. Worth a read.
Read about the film students who … can’t sit through films to the end.
