November 29 Friday roundup

Episode 3 of Next Comes What is live! You can watch on YouTube or listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. (A reminder: the Friday podcast is a multimedia version of the written post on politics and history that comes out in the newsletter each Tuesday, so don’t be surprised if you notice overlap.)

Here’s hoping everyone had a great Thanksgiving and still has enough leftover pie to carry them through the weekend.

Here are just a few of the people mentioned in the essays and on the podcast this week: Ian Haney López, Karen Stenner, Duncan Watts, Robert Lifton, and Michael Jones. This ProPublica story from Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana on deaths in Texas due to the abortion ban there is also worth a read, as is this piece on the Federalist Society by Tom Scocca.

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