- Michael Pollan has an open letter to the next president of the US in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine. Read it.
- Also in the Times today, David Brooks writes on the Republican Party’s self-defeating form of class warfare: anti-intellectualism. Here’s the conclusion:
Once conservatives admired Churchill and Lincoln above all — men from wildly different backgrounds who prepared for leadership through constant reading, historical understanding and sophisticated thinking. Now those attributes bow down before the common touch.
And so, politically, the G.O.P. is squeezed at both ends. The party is losing the working class by sins of omission — because it has not developed policies to address economic anxiety. It has lost the educated class by sins of commission — by telling members of that class to go away.
- NPR offers a free stream of the new Bob Dylan rare recordings collection, Tell Tale Signs. (HT: Ben Myers)
- Someone named Alex MacLean is doing surprisingly interesting aerial photography of American suburbs and suburban life.
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