Rereading Three Campaign Trail Classics; a Physicist’s Take on Genesis; Social Constructivism vs. Moral Absolutism

Walter Russell Mead visits Budapest • [View this email in your browser]( October 27, 2024 • Tishrei 25, 5785 [THE WEEKENDER](#) # [Norman Mailer vs. the Big Empty]( Thirty-five years after the Cold War fizzled, America’s most entertaining and iconoclastic writer about culture and politics remains too hot to handle [BY DAVID MIKICS](#) # [We Are All on the Bus]( Timothy Crouse’s brilliant book about the servile self-importance of political reporters, ‘The Boys on the Bus,’ describes a disease that now infects the entire country [BY ARMIN ROSEN](#) # [Hunter S. Thompson Was a Weird Visionary Before Drugs and Politics Ate His Brain]( In 1972, he was a wounded, disillusioned political observer who turned a beating in Chicago into a potent source of rage at the machine [BY JEFF WEISS](#) # [Stop Blaming Foucault]( It’s ontological absolutism, not the postmodern emphasis on deconstruction and contingency, that is turning the humanities into a race-obsessed, pro-genocidal wasteland [BY ARI GANDSMAN](#) # [First Moon Colony]( A star physicist teaches us how to read the Torah, book by book. First up: Genesis. [BY JEREMY ENGLAND](#) LISTEN TO TABLET # WHAT REALLY MATTERS [Ukraine’s Future Under Kamala and Trump]( This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss America’s new lithium wealth, leaking Israeli war plans to Iran, Chicago’s ongoing financial collapse, and how the war in Ukraine would end up under Kamala Harris or Donald Trump OCTOBER 24, 2024 # # This email was sent to you by [Tablet Magazine](#) Tablet Magazine | P.O. Box 20079 | New York, NY 10001 [Remove me from this list]( | [Forward to a Friend]( You are receiving this email because you signed up at our website, www.tabletmag.com. Tablet Magazine P.O. Box 20079 New York, NY 10001 USA Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp [Mailchimp Email Marketing](