What I'm Reading About the Election
Caitlin Dewey, writing on her substack Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends, has made a good list of articles to read in this post-election time.
The next morning, we woke up. Drank our coffee. Did our jobs. Bought our groceries at the same corner store. Walked past the same houses, “Harris” signs in their yards.
Nothing feels the same, but it all looks quite unchanged — a dissonance sure to cause dizziness for some. Your eyes and your heart send conflicting signals; your brain isn’t sure what to make of them. Is this still my home, my block, my country? Do I understand who and where I am? I have the sense of sliding backwards through the world, like standing in the surf as the tide turns back again.
She then lists the articles she’s been reading –
“This Place Is All Fucked Up,” by Barry Petchesky for Defector. “How America Made Peace With Cruelty,” by Adam Serwer for The Atlantic “Broken Bones: America’s Violent Indifference Toward Women,” by Kate Manne for More to Hate “The TikTok Electorate,” by Max Read for Read Max “How to Live Under Rising Authoritarianism, According to a Philosopher Who Did It Bravely,” by Sigal Samuel for Vox
It’s a good list.