We get into a lot this week with Katherine back in the third chair, including:
How we’re all dealing with the Big Blizzard of 2026
Katherine saw Emerald Fennel’s Wuthering Heights. She’s not a fan!
The DNC is refusing to release its 2024 election autopsy, probably in large part because of how much of Kamala Harris’ loss is attributable to the Biden Administration’s reprehensible response to the genocide in Gaza
A helpful and definitely accurate pathologizing of FBI Kash Patel’s appearance in the locker of the U.S. men’s hockey team post-Canada victory
A brief discussion on how our pending war with Iran would be the ultimate realization of America’s “foreign policy”
And in our After Dark segment available only to subscribers, we touch on “longevity influencer” Peter Attia stepping down from his new gig as a contributor to Bari Weiss’ CBS News after his…interesting appearance in the Epstein Files
This week’s cultural recommendations:
Jack recommends Alysa Liu’s gold-winning performance at the winter Olympics and the iconic interview between French clown Philippe Gaulier and Hilary and Chelsea Clinton
Katherine recommends Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent and David Cromer-directed, Tracy Letts-written play Bug, now on Broadway
Aleks recommends Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette on FX and Hulu
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