Will PMJT quit this year? Plus Gould, Guelph and other stuff

The Reading List for 12 Aug 22

PMJT: Do I really wanna keep doing this?

Welcome new subscribers!

Welcome back, everyone else.

For many people, this is the August doldrums. Some people at work. The rest taking holidays.

In central newfoundland and couple of fires are playing havoc with people at either end of a very long road that connects communities on the south coast of Newfoundland with the major town in the north-centre of the island.

This is the second summer of book-binging. Last summer, there was a bit of Christopher Hitchens but mostly filling in Orwell’s non-fiction and fiction. This summer started with Albert Camus, the Algerian-French philosopher and journalist. Then I switched to filling in collections of Joan Didion’s non-fiction essays. And with that still on the go, I started in on Martin Amis.

Fortunately for you, this week’s reading list is more a highlight of stuff worth noting instead of dragging you back to 1940s and 1950s France or Joan Didion in Haight-Ashbury.

Instead…

• Eric Grenier on CPC leadership fundraising

• Francis Fukuyama on how American political parties can depolarize

• Paul Wells has some advice for PMJT

• Lawrence Krauss on hiring academics at Guelph

• Lydia Perovic on Glenn Gould