Heath Marlow

What's with the casual clothes? Is this a matinee perf?

Reinstate Jimmy Kimmel and stop caving to authoritarian censorship! Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they ...

Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they have, to fight back. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ki...

Love the baseball glove decor.

Thank you, Brian, for all that you share with the world. With each incisive and witty essay, you are opening my eyes to ideas that allow me to be (soberly) hopeful. This is so valuable, and I know I'm not alone in this sentiment.

Lionizing Mark Twain, Conan O’Brien Subtly Skewers Trump In accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the comedian mounted a bristling political attack artfully disguised as a tribute.

"No one I know saw the Kennedy Center as one of the most important arts institutions in the country. It is odd that Sunday night was the first time among the many that I have visited its cavernous, columned space, that it felt like it to me." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...

Join me on April 5th

The fight against President Musk (and Kennedy Center chairman Trump) is just starting. I'm joining the mobilization to show the strength of our movement. Time to stop MAGA’s takeover. app.sosha.ai/s/RD6Ehh7e

In Hospitals and Hospices, ‘Music as Care’ Offers a New Kind of Comfort A violinist plays for her father. A singer takes requests. In hospitals and hospices, bedside performers offer a new kind of care.

"I had not been playing for a stranger, but for a parent whose deep attachment to Bach had been a constant, audible, fact throughout my childhood. However scratchy my reading of that Chaconne had been, to him it was the sound of home." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/a...

Opinion | The New Evidence Climate Change Will Upend American Homeownership A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.

"Climate change is upending the basic assumption that Americans can continue to build wealth and financial security by owning their own home. In a sense, it is upending the American dream." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...

"[T]here is a real problem with the news that deserves a real solution: we need to find a way to convey positive trends to counterbalance negative events."

"But those terrible forges of American identity, war and the frontier, have been decommissioned. Today our wars are undeclared and ignoble, increasingly fought by mercenaries; our final frontier is the province of specialists and robots."

"Nobody is owed a dream. The loss of this promise is a breach of contract, the theft of an inheritance. And now Americans are looking for the thieves."

"When all parties succumb to the gravitational pull of despotism, escape velocity becomes nearly impossible."

"The greatest challenge facing classical music today is how to rehumanize a practice built on the fiction of transcendence."

Rediscovering this beautifully sculpted wisdom shared by @dougshadle.bsky.social in 2021.