It has been a while since I have done one of these, but I wanted to try a new format. In addition to doing a weekly essay (which you can find here), I want to do a comment thread!
I’m trying to decide what benefits to offer my paid subscribers. I’ll have a few comments in the comment section on ideas I’ve had. “Like” the ones you would be interested in, and feel free to suggest your own!
With no further ado…
Things I enjoyed reading:
🤥 ”Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator” by Ryan Holiday. I wrote about this earlier this year and finally finished it. It was a great read, and I recommend it to anyone working in marketing or journalism.
. As much as I wanted to believe Andrew Tate was stupid enough to leak his location with a pizza box, it was only a matter of time until someone debunked this in the most hilarious way possible.
. This was, by far, my favorite thing I read this week. Khalid is a great writer, and I love her nuanced take on culture, history and art. A professor at Hamline university was fired after showing a 14th-century painting of the prophet Mohammed. Some groupings of Muslims don’t depict sacred figures, but others do. The administration chose to impose the most conservative view on the subject and, by doing so, “has privileged a most extreme and conservative Muslim point of view. The administrators have flattened the rich history and diversity of Islamic thought.”
🤩 ”The New Gurus” a podcast with Helen Lewis. She explores all of the people who have taken place as our priests in this modern age.
😳 ”An Act abolishing diversity in Opinions” which is something I just discovered. Apparently, King Henry VIII had it with people telling him how to be Catholic, so he made it illegal to think differently from him. I’ll probably be writing about this later.
The Weekly Rondo
The Weekly Rondo
The Weekly Rondo
It has been a while since I have done one of these, but I wanted to try a new format. In addition to doing a weekly essay (which you can find here), I want to do a comment thread!
I’m trying to decide what benefits to offer my paid subscribers. I’ll have a few comments in the comment section on ideas I’ve had. “Like” the ones you would be interested in, and feel free to suggest your own!
With no further ado…
Things I enjoyed reading:
🤥 ”Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator” by Ryan Holiday. I wrote about this earlier this year and finally finished it. It was a great read, and I recommend it to anyone working in marketing or journalism.
🎨 ”You Have to Assume Everyone is Terrible at Understanding Art” by
❌ ”Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because Of His Greta Thunberg Video” by
☪️ ”Most of All, I am Offended as a Muslim” by
Things I’m looking forward to:
💡 ”Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less.” I have only barely cracked this book open, but I really like it so far. It’s going to be a good resource for informational writing.
🤩 ”The New Gurus” a podcast with Helen Lewis. She explores all of the people who have taken place as our priests in this modern age.
😳 ”An Act abolishing diversity in Opinions” which is something I just discovered. Apparently, King Henry VIII had it with people telling him how to be Catholic, so he made it illegal to think differently from him. I’ll probably be writing about this later.