These Are Profoundly Dangerous Words to Be Using Right Now

The words of Tucker Carlson and Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis are profoundly dangerous. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       This Is Not a Recipe for 'Order.' It's a Recipe for Chaos.   It is not "maintaining order" when some guy travels to another state with an assault rifle and starts patrolling the streets where he doesn't even live. Throwing random people with semiautomatic weapons into the mix is not a recipe for order, it's a recipe for further chaos, which is what Kenosha got. Yet the fire-stoking words of Tucker Carlson and the classic Cop Talk Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis would lead you to believe that this was anything but an alleged vigilante murderer using deadly force to "resolve whatever conflict" he gets himself into. Jack Holmes unpacks these simultaneous dangerous moments in discourse. Read More           NBA Players Have Earned Their Wealth and Success, Unlike Jared Kushner   Chris Paul worked his whole life and won a scholarship to Wake Forest University. Jared Kushner's father bought the spalpeen's way into Harvard. LeBron James worked his whole life to get rich. Jared Kushner married his way into a family of grifted wealth. Giannis Sina Ugo Antetokounmpo began his life as a stateless Nigerian migrant in Greece, and he's now the NBA's Most Valuable Player. Jared Kushner began his life as a privileged twerp and he's now...a hyper-privileged twerp. Charles P. Pierce offers a brief thought on when Jared Kushner should shut his mouth. Read More           18 Reasons to Buy a Band Collar Shirt Right Now   The band collar shirt is like any old button-down you already have in your arsenal absent one important detail: The whole damn collar. When buttoned to the top it creates a long, clean line (providing a little bit of Hot Priest energy in the process) and when left entirely unbuttoned—as it should be throughout the summer—it tends to cocoon comfortably around either side of the body, wholly unencumbered by the weight of a pesky, protruding collar. If you're not a DIY guy yourself, here's some good news. These days brands of all types are making the style every way imaginable, and if you want to avoid all the hassle and cop yourself a shirt with the collar already lopped off they're all yours for the buying. Read More           Tenet Review: Christopher Nolan's Latest Is An Exhilarating Blockbuster In Search of a Soul   Christopher Nolan has never been what you'd call a sentimental filmmaker, but his highly anticipated eleventh movie seems to have had every trace of humanity surgically removed in post. Tenet will be many people's first movie theater experience in months, and it's a perfect reintroduction—a dizzyingly ambitious, exhilarating popcorn thriller that demands to be seen on the big screen, peppered with visuals that feel genuinely groundbreaking. It's also a strangely apt choice for the social distancing era because nobody on screen is relating to each other in a normal way, or sharing anything that feels like intimacy. Emma Dibdin braved the movie theater, and offers her full review of Tenet here. Read More           How Many Times Can We Hear Donald Trump Is a Great Family Man Before the Universe Explodes?   Donald Trump is a guy who spent the 1980s as one of that decade's preeminent Manhattan tabloid piñatas, and that was a tough goddamn lineup to crack in those days. He is on his third wife, the one on whom he ran around with Stormy Daniels, an episode that included his laundering a payoff to her—and most recently, ended with his having to pay her legal fees. Did we all have to hear about how much he loves all his families, and the tiny kindnesses emanating from the Secret Place in him that only his closest sycophants will ever know? Charles P. Pierce reacts to what was one of Wednesday's primary RNC themes—the Secret Heart of El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago. Read More           The Weeknd Told Us What 'Blinding Lights' Really Means. He Does Not Advocate Doing It.   "If you've been anywhere near a streaming service or radio or anything that plays music in the past six months or so, there's a good chance that you've heard the synth-heavy bars of The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights." As August comes to an end, it has amassed a casual 1,365,914,088 streams since its initial release back in November of 2019. The accompanying music video, which sees The Weeknd navigate a Mercedes at high speeds on route to get laid, has an additional 200 million views. But what exactly is one of 2020's most popular tracks about? The Weeknd revealed the (dark) meaning behind "Blinding Lights" in the September cover of Esquire. 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