What will Biden do?
Prepare for four more years of executive disappointment
Paywall
Tuesday
Monday
The weaponization of whining
A crack in The Narrative? A glimmer of sanity? Maybe. Well, not really
Biden offers no change and no hope
Expect four more years of disappointment and stasis
Sunday
We’re all thought criminals now
If someone is accused of being racist or transphobic they are rarely given a chance to defend themselves
Statues and limitations
How we can reckon with the past without destroying it
Godfrey’s Race to Dinner
Your vanilla voice is not welcome. Your low-pigment opinions are invalid
Saturday
Perry Mason jars
A brutal backstory for HBO’s decadent detective
Monday
Young Hamlet
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell reviewed
Saturday
All about the allium
Summertime, and the garlic is fragrant
Friday
Do the vegans want blood?
Meat is murder, they say
Wednesday
Godfrey’s drag queen story time
Do it for the children
Flavors of the past
Visiting Uzbekistan is a huge adventure
Tuesday
Stargazing under lockdown
The late great American astronomer Leslie Peltier was onto something
Custard and coffee
Lisbon is the perfect weekend destination to do very little
Saturday
Born Toulouse: varietals, vermouth and verse
Pinot Noir ‘should be approached like a beautiful woman — with respect, some knowledge, and great hopes’
Friday
Prodigal son-in-law
Who is the real Jared Kushner?
Wednesday
What we need is social media distancing
Social media brings out the worst in us because the algorithm rewards us for being tribal, divisive and emotional
The Kushner conundrum
Is he a scapegoat or a saboteur?
Tuesday
Just-one-knee syndrome
They took a knee, as it were, when what they should have done was throw themselves to the ground
Jared and the Jews
Kushner is a Jewish American Hofjude, a privileged fixer with connections