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Lawrence Wright: America's Misadventures in Wars, Cults, and Panics

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author discusses the enduring roots of Middle Eastern conflict, the rise and fall of cultural panics, and why Texas may be the blueprint—and battleground—for America's future.

Reason

A Texas Writer Tackles a Subject ‘Beckoning in the Shadows His Entire Life’

Stephen Harrigan explores his own Catholic boyhood in Texas—and the prophecy left behind by a Portuguese prophet girl—in a compelling new book.

Texas Observer

Friday essay: as the legacy media have dumbed down, The New Yorker has dumbed up

Like many, I entered The New Yorker through the cartoon door. The first cartoon I loved, and remember to this day, featured a New Yorker staple – two guys sitting in a bar – with one saying to the other: “I wish just once someone would say to me, ‘I…

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Evening Standard

Richard Linklater: ‘I don’t feel connected to my government right now’

The film-maker is one of three directors behind the docuseries God Save Texas looking at the issues facing those living in the state, some a matter of life and death

The Guardian - US

‘Sex is bad. Music is the best substitute’: Lawrence Wright, the mogul who kickstarted London’s pop industry

A Cumbrian mining disaster ended up being the catalyst for the publisher to set up shop in Denmark Street, and make it the home of British songwriting

The Guardian - UK

The Life, Death, and Life of San Antonio’s Symphony

A decades-long fight for music and high art is also a fight for organized labor in the state’s second-largest city.

Texas Observer

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Palestinian teen killed in Israeli army raid in West Bank

Palestinians say Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during an army raid in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank

The Independent UK

Israel Jails Soldier Who Assaulted Palestinian during US Media Interview

Israel's military on Monday jailed for 10 days a soldier who assaulted a Palestinian activist as he was speaking to a US journalist, but gave an account of the incident that was disputed by the interviewer. The incident in Hebron also set off an internal Israeli flap, with National Security…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Commentary: US COVID-19 deaths are still high, but let’s learn from forecasters’ mistakes

In a recent NFL game, the Indianapolis Colts led the Minnesota Vikings 33-0 at halftime. At that point, Las Vegas was offering odds better than 100-1 the Colts would win, but the Vikings staged a furious second-half rally and won on a field goal in overtime. It was one of…

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