THE HOME FRONT
"Did he say fight?" Drew Miller asked me. It was July 13th, and we were in rural Colorado, near an outpost of Fortitude Ranch, a network of survivalist retreats that Miller has constructed in anticipation of civilizational collapse. News of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump the first one-had just pinged: a young man named Thomas Crooks had shot at Trump from a rooftop near a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, striking his right ear. Trump had stood, with blood on his face, and shouted to his crowd, "Fight, fight, fight!" The shooter's motives were unknown, but Republicans were blaming Democrats. "File charges against Joseph R. Biden for inciting an assassination," Representative Mike Collins posted on X. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene accused the "evil" Democratic Party of attempting "murder." Miller's phone began to make the sound of a dog barking-his ringtone-as members and employees of the ranches sent texts and e-mails.
A salesperson in Nevada was seeing a sudden increase in requests to join: "Member interest. I'm already getting previous leads texting me." A member in Colorado wondered if it was time to mobilize: "Should we do an alert?" As the barking continued, I asked what Miller thought. "This could stir things up," he said, after a heavy pause.
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WHAT WE KNEW WITHOUT KNOWING
Notes to John Gregory Dunne.
THE INVISIBLE MAN
Will Majority Leader John Thune protect the Senate from irrelevance?
SIGNALLING
The accidental inclusion of Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, in a secret group chat of senior U.S. officials has been described as a breach of national security without historical precedent. This is not the case.
MARSEILLE
For her birthday, Amina asked to go on a trip. Her husband had travelled for work the previous month, and, although that wasn’t exactly for pleasure, it was now understood that anything which freed them from child care could be considered some type of holiday.
FIGHTING THE SYSTEM
When the legal quest for school desegregation hit the skids.
LATIN LOVER
Tender, obscene, sophisticated, Catullus continues to seduce us.
DUELLING INSTINCTS
\"Othello\" and \"The Trojans.\"
DOWNFALL
“Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light,” on PBS.
THE MARRIAGE PLOT
Does the wedding website the Knot have a “fake brides” problem?
DIRTY MINDS
It’s those other people who have been brainwashed, right?
