Christopher Hooks

The Self-Delusions of Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto Her memoir frequently shows an indifference toward truth, falsity, and meaning. In that way, it’s an artifact of our age.

I reviewed American Canto… newrepublic.com/article/2041...

second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard

How West Texas Created American Conservatism A new book says a handful of eccentric characters in our most remote region changed America forever.

Many thanks to @hooks.bsky.social for this terrifically thoughtful review of Jeff Roche's THE CONSERVATIVE FRONTIER. @texasmonthly.bsky.social subscribers, this one will be in the print issue in your mailboxes very soon!

What the Texas National Guard Deployment Tells Us About Greg Abbott Our governor can be a maddeningly inscrutable figure. His latest exercise in ordering troops around can help us understand him.

There’s something missing in Greg Abbott. Over the last decade, he seems to have learned to fill it by moving troops around, a hobby which is having a stranger and stranger effect on his country as time goes by: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

one of the most gripping films i've ever seen. feels far shorter than its runtime.

Right-Wing Lawmakers Are Trying to California Your Texas The right wing used to hate lawsuits, the nanny state, and the film industry. It’s learned to embrace them as a means of cultural influence.

Love this @hooks.bsky.social story about how Texas Republicans are embracing everything they once hated about California: Health food, trial lawyers and film industry slush funds.

www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Amphibious Assault The case of the missing salamanders.

Full article (still an unsolved mystery!) by @hooks.bsky.social

www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the...

Opinion | Try Living in Elon Musk’s Company Town (Published 2024)

As with anything to do with this Musk vanity project, @hooks.bsky.social’s piece on its real human and environmental costs is a must-read. Gift link - www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/o...

"...as a freelance magazine journalist, I am a blue-collar manufacturing worker in a collapsing industry that no amount of tariffs can fix. My day-to-day has become a Rust Belt of the mind, and there is nothing left for me in the West. Off I go." - @hooks.bsky.social

Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.

This is excellent. newrepublic.com/article/1947...

I went to Greenland to try to think through one of the strangest aspects of Trump's second term: His love of the 19th century newrepublic.com/article/1947...

Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.

This by @hooks.bsky.social, about Trump's Greenland fixation, is a thoughtful musing on his second term and this moment of frenetic ferment in American politics. "Why are the Americans doing this? My worry is that the answer is simple: We're bored." newrepublic.com/article/1947...

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Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession

An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.

Words by @hooks.bsky.social
Illustrations by @coldwarsteve.bsky.social

oops yeah that was supposed to be “the americas,” missed that it had changed

Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.

We sent @hooks.bsky.social to Greenland and he came back with a story about imperial folly, the return of the 19th century, and just what Donald Trump and his cronies are really up to there. It's the best thing I've read about Trump's second term newrepublic.com/article/1947...

Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.

It was a real pleasure to do this: newrepublic.com/article/1947...

For the June issue of The New Republic, I went to Greenland and Denmark to think through Trump’s annexation obsession, Trumpworld’s love of the 19th century, why my country keeps hitting itself in the head with a hammer, and the world‘s best bar (Daddy’s, in Nuuk)

Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.

This from @hooks.bsky.social is a rip-roaring piece of magazine journalism like from the old days. And yes, the @newrepublic.com sent him to Greenland! And he did reporting while there! newrepublic.com/article/1947... via @newrepublic.com

Ken Paxton Thinks He’s Found the Cause of Our Growing Stupidity: Fluoridated Pokémon Toothpaste The attorney general alleges Crest and Colgate are “encourag kids to ingest fluoride toothpaste” with their marketing. It’s the latest in the Texas GOP’s war on nonexistent threats.

"So many Americans live in a demon-haunted world, with unreal dangers in every corner." @hooks.bsky.social
You're not getting dumber because of fluoride, but maybe Texas officials are. The war on oral health continues. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

On Pulitzer announcement today, remember that journalism still matters. It will always matter. For example, I just found out I’m cited on the German Wikipedia page for the Philly cheesesteak

Ugh I hate the new corvettes

Park Slope trip report: there’s a Lambo outside and a private party inside my empanada loca

Look at my empire dawg… If anyone will fund my startup costs, I will get a shipping container and arbitrage these back home

Wanna hear something crazy? Eggs are cheaper in Greenland than they are in the U.S. No chickens within ~1,000 miles. Bottom row is $4.78 for 15

YouTube video by Eli Black Wife Liker (a short film)

my friends made a short documentary that raises a lot of questions youtu.be/8m78pjnAtNI

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[trying to order food at a restaurant] um, unfortunate this is paywalled

Good Lord, I Found an Episode of Art Bell with Merle Haggard This sounds like a parody of something I would post specifically. You’re completely right. Spiritually, I made it up. But it’s real somehow: I found an episode of Coast to Coast AM where Art Bell inte...

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