Republicans Have to Be Terrified (Right??)

I know that they've become very good at putting a brave face on things. That comes when you're fully committed yourself to life in an alternate reality. But there have to be Republicans who go home at night and fill themselves with good bourbon and existential dread. Their presidential frontrunner, and a dangerous mistake they cannot bring themselves to undo, is coming apart in public. [View in Browser]( [Esquire]( [SHOP]( EXCLUSIVE [SUBSCRIBE]( [Surely There Are Some Republicans Who Are Terrified By This]( [Surely There Are Some Republicans Who Are Terrified By This]( I know that they've become very good at putting a brave face on things. That comes when you're fully committed yourself to life in an alternate reality. But there have to be Republicans who go home at night and fill themselves with good bourbon and existential dread. Their presidential frontrunner, and a dangerous mistake they cannot bring themselves to undo, is coming apart in public. [Read More](   [The Western Renaissance Begins With The Bullet Swallower]( [The Western Renaissance Begins With The Bullet Swallower]( The book's author, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, discusses the troubled genre's inclusive new frontier. [Read More]( [The 8 Best Chanel Colognes for Men]( [The 8 Best Chanel Colognes for Men]( You really can't go wrong. It's choosing one that's the hard part. [Read More](     [The Biggest Snubs and Surprises of the 2024 Oscar Nominations]( [The Biggest Snubs and Surprises of the 2024 Oscar Nominations]( It's time to fire up your Oscars ballots, folks. On Tuesday morning, Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid announced the nominees for the 2024 Academy Awards. Surprise, surprise: Oppenheimer led the field with 13 nominations. In what's easily the biggest shocker of the morning, Barbie failed to break double digits at this year's Academy Awards, with just nine nominations in total. Though the film was nominated for Best Picture, director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie were both snubbed from the field. [Read More](   [Don't Hit the Gym Without These 23 Essentials]( [Don't Hit the Gym Without These 23 Essentials]( Some you need, some you don't. This is what we're bringing. [Read More]( [The End of the Multiverse]( [The End of the Multiverse]( Audiences are falling out of love with dizzying multiverse sagas. Can the concept still be a useful lens on the psychology of regret, or is it dead on arrival? [Read More](     [Jacob Elordi Is Young and Restless and Longing for Home]( [Jacob Elordi Is Young and Restless and Longing for Home]( "I'm just burning sage," says Jacob Elordi as he takes a lighter to the business end of a smudge stick. His voice, transmitted over Zoom from his home in Los Angeles, is so deep that the words tend to blur together, as if this six-foot-five Aussie, in a baseball cap and a banana-yellow T-shirt, has been possessed by the spirit of Eeyore. Or it might just be how he's feeling today. "A little down in the dumps," he says. "Work is the North Star. As long as I'm doing that, I'm good. I can be anyone, anywhere." [Read More](   [RUN 2024 Wall Calendar]( [LiveIntent Logo]( [AdChoices Logo]( [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