The Best Batman May Be Making a Big Return

If it means the return of history's best Bruce Wayne, then let's embrace the chaos. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       Michael Keaton May Return as Batman, Because DC Just Wants to Watch the World Burn   In yet another strange, but not unwelcome, move from Warner Bros.'s chaotic DC superhero universe, it's being reported that Michael Keaton—the best Batman—might return as the Dark Knight in the studio's upcoming Flash movie. After a number of twists and turns—with overlapping and sometimes independent movie universes containing multiple Batmen and Jokers—adding another Batman, played by the man who famously dawned the cowl in 1989, is deeply confusing and unexpected. Here's what we know so far. Read More           This Is Nothing Short of Government Vandalism   The collateral damage of the administration*'s disgraceful handling of the pandemic grows almost by the hour. It is particularly acute when the pandemic collides with people suffering from the pre-existing conditions of either being misinformed, or of being stupid. There are people who pay an awful price when that happens. People are up in arms about vandalism. This is vandalism, and it's taking place inside the house of government. Cowardly politicians who awake every morning dreading the possibility that someone will say something mean about them on the radio, resulting in a lawn-full of angry shut-ins and local lunatics. The politicians step aside and let the public health officials take it right in the face. Charles P. Pierce unpacks the latest. Read More           The 17 Best Places to Buy Glasses Online   If you're starting to get nervous about upping your own prescription, or if you plopped yourself down on the couch and immediately heard that telltale snapping sound (oof), don't panic—the world wide web offers a massive and multi-varied selection of eyeglasses to shop, and lets you skip the multiple in-person appointments (aaah, appointments!) and go straight to the source. Esquire's Avidan Grossman lays out some of the best places to start. Read More           'I Have Had No Prouder Moment in Music': Run the Jewels on Capturing the Sound of American Rage   Shortly after Run the Jewels released their fourth album amid a national uprising, Killer Mike was at home in Atlanta when the phone rang. A friend FaceTimed him from a nearby demonstration, where crowds of protesters were chanting Mike's lyrics to "Walking In the Snow" as they marched. Mike and longtime partner El-P dropped RTJ4 on June 3—nine days after a Minneapolis cop kneeled on the neck of George Floyd and killed him, and nine days before Atlanta police shot and killed Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy's parking lot. Hillary Hughes caught up with the iconic duo about fighting the system, the power of chaos, and what it felt like to hear their lyrics chanted in the streets during protests. Read More           Julio Torres: Life Is More Complex Than One Coming Out Speech   Pride has never looked like this before. Parades are canceled. Gatherings are a public health concern. But that hardly means that Pride is canceled. This month, Esquire is examining what Pride means now, beyond the parade and for the next 50 years—whether it's advocating for justice over Zoom, discovering the intersectionality too often missing from Pride, or simply existing as a trans father. The protest continues. We have asked four figures from popular culture to be Pride guest editors during the month of June. This week, Julio Torres—comedian and writer of Los Espookys on HBO—joined Esquire's Justin Kirkland for a discussion about the importance of individuality and how it's important to see beyond what's familiar. Read More           What Is Alt TikTok? And How Did Its Users Team Up With K-Pop Twitter to Disrupt Trump's Rally?   On Saturday, Donald Trump held his first rally since March. The event, staged at Tulsa's 19,000-seat Bank of Oklahoma Center, was supposed to be a return to form for the president, who the New York Times reported was "giddy" in the days leading up to it. Judging from statements by Trump and his campaign in the days leading up to the event, Tulsa was going to be one of his biggest events yet. His campaign manager, Brad Parscale, boasted that 800,000 people had requested tickets for the event, a figure Parscale said was 10 times the number of registrations for any prior Trump rally. But the Tulsa rally didn't quite go as planned. Esquire's Gabrielle Bruney breaks down what TikTok and K-Pop fandoms had to do with that. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2020 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019