Michael Lang, Woodstock Organizer, Dies at 77 hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-new… via @thr

Chronic absenteeism nearly doubled after the pandemic school closures and has improved only slightly since. For many, school has now become optional. For ProPublica and The New Yorker, I dug into the core question: How do you rebuild a crucial social norm? propublica.org/article/school…

Open Letter to College and University Presidents on Student Protests aclu.org/news/free-spee…

Last week Red Bull built a gigantic ski jump on a ski slope in Akureyri, Iceland. Ryōyū Kobayashi flew 291 meters and was in the air for over 10 seconds. The video is magnificent.

“Welcome back. I’m wearing my old Columbia sweatshirt and a Hamas headband—the look of the season.” Nellie Bowles digs into the campus wars and much more in this week’s “TGIF: Don’t Tread on Me, Bro” newsletter. Read it in The FP: thefp.pub/4blheQr

The number of supposedly intelligent people who think "well, polls systematically underestimate Democrats now!" when Trump substantially overperformed his polls in 2016 and 2020 —to a much greater degree than Dems did in 2022, not even a presidential year—is mind-blowing to me.

American kids are way too confident—and Paris Hilton “owes us an apology for being patient zero for today’s vapid, entitled, famous-for-nothing culture,” @BillMaher writes in an essay from his new book, “What This Comedian Said Will Shock You.” thefp.pub/4dPzBz8

Are we going to become a country in which journalists are regularly surrounded and threatened for doing their jobs? Because that happened yesterday to The Free Press reporter Olivia Reingold in downtown New York. Are we going to become a place in which marauding bands of masked young

Spot on.

"Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offence or from insult or from hurt feelings. It is an occupational hazard of living in society" "If you really can't take it, become a hermit." It feels like a good time to post this.

Happy to share that the recording of my book launch is now available online at youtu.be/r4bIZ-zBmCU Special thanks its skillful editor, David Hall Glucksman Ireland House NYU As you can see, the Glucksman Irish Diaspora series is great company to be in! NYU Press

“What leads a person to put down their placard and pick up a gun? This is what fascinates me: the plunge a radical takes from protest to resistance.” The FP’s @elilake takes us through the history of the radical Weather Underground. thefp.pub/3TgV9vO

Very interesting (and perhaps surprising) analysis of Citizens United ruling and how it led to broader challenges to established political interests.

This should be Kamala’s entire media strategy.

Lee’s stature as a sought-after public intellectual & a widely published scholar makes A Tract for Our Times essential reading for anyone interested in the trajectory of c20th Ireland, as well as for those who are interested in the craft & practice of history-writing Out Oct

"We need to get behind the officials who are administering this election. They need a lot of love and support right now. They need money. They need volunteers. And they need people to vouch for the integrity of this election." — Nate Persily via Stanford Law School ow.ly/zCEf50ToGyS

.Jan Carson on difficult places, different cultures and life w characters after the story is done, in tonight's celebration of her new story collection. Thanks to author Sidik Fofana for moderating + Helena Nolan, Consul General of Ireland in NY Helena Nolan for her continued support of our literary programs