Further Reading for Loose Tabs

I used to keep a pinned list in the Loose Tabs header of Notes on Everyday Life pieces relevant to the mostly political matters discussed there. As the list grows, I thought it best to move the index out into its own file, and just link to it as needed:

2026

• [07-29]: Famous Death Dwarves: Lindsey Graham is finally laid to rest.

• [06-26]: Arafat and Abbas on Violence: Reflections from Tomorrow Is Yesterday

• [06-22]: After Iran: A funny thing happened on the way to the apocalypse.

• [05-29]: But Reality Is Unscripted: Disturbing thoughts on Trump.

• [05-05]: The Real Road to Serfdom: Tim Wu explains how monopoly power leads to fascism.

• [05-02]: Lookback: Iraq 2003: Why does the Iran war story sound familiar (with allowances for tragedy repeating as farce)?

• [04-27]: Explaining Inflation: AI treats us like 5-year-olds. They leave out a few things.

• [04-05]: Iran War: The Big Question: How does it end? Or does it end at all?

• [04-03]: Iran War: The Three Questions: Why is this happening?

• [03-13]: Days of Infamy: Franklin Roosevelt knew how to sell a war. Donald Trump doesn't. He only knows how to start one.

2025

• [10-21]: Making Peace in Gaza and Beyond: Looking beyond the Trump points toward a peace we can all live with.

• [10-17]: Gaza War Peace Plan: Twenty Trump points, for better or worse.

• [09-04]: More Thoughts About Bernie Sanders and Capitalism:

• [08-19]: Bernie Sanders Finds It's OK to Talk Like an Old Lefty:

• [08-10]: Four Stories: My first post, which sets out the basic ideas behind my effort, and takes its title from a very wrong-headed Vox piece that offered some teachable moments. Quote:

  There is no problem that Trump is the solution to. But his slogan, "Trump will fix it," suggests that some people thought we had problems he could fix. I think Trump's slogan was very effective, especially as Harris made little or no effort to show how very ridiculous the boast was.

Earlier Pieces

Before Notes on Everyday Life, I mostly published news compilations as Speaking of Which and Loose Tabs, but I'd like to point out a couple more specialized posts:

• [2022-04-19]: 23 Theses on Ukraine: From the early days of the war.

• [2022-03-13]: Rick Scott: On the R-FL Senator's "11 Point Plan to Rescue America."