Mike Johnson is Not Winston Churchill

I will set aside my longtime distrust of unalloyed Churchill worship for a moment, and comment only on the slavering over Speaker Moses and his remarkable political skill of passing a piece of legislation that a vast majority of the House favored, and that was demonstrably popular in the country at large. Granted, he did so in the face of the Angry Children's Caucus, but his challenge to them was tepid at best.

View in Browser  SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE Under No Circumstances Will I Be Comparing Mike Johnson To Winston Churchill I will set aside my longtime distrust of unalloyed Churchill worship for a moment, and comment only on the slavering over Speaker Moses and his remarkable political skill of passing a piece of legislation that a vast majority of the House favored, and that was demonstrably popular in the country at large. Granted, he did so in the face of the Angry Children's Caucus, but his challenge to them was tepid at best. Read More With The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift Makes One for Herself It's a fascinating, confounding, messy, sometimes frustrating, and bravely strange collection with unexpected revelations about the world's most dominant cultural figure. Read More These Jackets Are Made for Layerin' And that's just what they'll do. Read More The 26 True Crime Books Everyone Needs to Read True crime is all around us, these days. From podcasts to television shows to movies and conventions, it's practically in the air we breathe. It's the true crime junkies' world—we're all just living in it. But why do we hunger so powerfully for these stories? Why are we willing to commit hours of our lives to them, whether they appear on the page or on the screen? In these excellent books, we're reminded that true crime does not simply consist of a neatly constructed narrative with a criminal mastermind and heroic detectives and ideal victims. Life, and crimes, are so much messier than that. Read More Samsonite's Most Popular Carry-On is 40% Off Just in time for travel season. Read More The Sympathizer E2 Introduces Another Wild Robert Downey Jr. Character Meet...Professor Hammer. Read More What It's Like Being an Oysterman (The Pay Sucks But You're Saving the Planet) For seven seasons I have worked as a commercial oysterman along the waters of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Current mapping shows that there are 4,664 acres of wild oyster beds that grow between the limits of high and low tide here. I am responsible for 4.8 of them. As storm events become more frequent, as coastal communities become more developed, and as our nation's infrastructure continues to degrade underground, the waters where we swim and fish and where we harvest oysters will increasingly come under threat, as will the livelihoods that rely on clean water. Read More How satisfied are you with the content of this newsletter? Follow Us Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice | CA Notice at Collection Esquire is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2024 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779