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"Join the World, not the U.S. Empire!"

Nov 11, 2024 | thetransnational.substack.com | David Swanson

•World BEYOND War and TFF Associate - and much more•November 11, 2024Originally published on World BEYOND War here. ••It's wonderful to be here with many of you whose work I've known but whom I've rarely if ever been with in person. I am very grateful to John Jones and Tomas Magnusson for arranging this event. I am thrilled to be here at the start of what I expect will be years of terrific work by the Lay Down Your Arms Foundation* — an appropriate name here in the House of Literature.
Notable Sandwiches #114: Meatball

Oct 18, 2024 | buttondown.com | David Swanson

October 18, 2024 By David SwansonWelcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I travel down the trail of Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in alphabetical order. Before we get to this week’s column: if you haven’t bought “Wild Faith” yet, now is your chance. And if you’re looking for lighter read, ”The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024” is out next week, featuring a notable sandwich essay from none other than Talia Lavin herself.
Lords of the Rings

Aug 4, 2024 | buttondown.email | David Swanson

August 4, 2024 Lords of the Rings By David SwansonWelcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or playing—for premium subscribers. BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBER Want to read the full issue?
Hollywood: The Oral Histories

Jun 9, 2024 | buttondown.email | David Swanson

June 9, 2024 Hollywood: The Oral Histories By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or playing—for premium subscribers. BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBER Want to read the full issue?
Notable Sandwiches #97: Jucy Lucy

May 24, 2024 | buttondown.email | David Swanson

May 24, 2024 Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I stumble our way through the strange and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a Twin Cities icon: the Jucy (or Juicy) Lucy. Really, it was inevitable that someone, somewhere, would think to stuff the cheese into of the middle of their burger rather than layering it on top. After all, we love to stuff our food with other food.
Notable Sandwich Tribute to Steve Albini

May 10, 2024 | buttondown.email | David Swanson

May 10, 2024 Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I stumble our way through the strange and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a special tribute to notable sandwich lover Steve Albini. On Wednesday, when I heard that Steve Albini had died, my first impulse was to cue up one of the iconic albums he produced—P.J. Harvey’s Rid of Me, or Surfer Rosa by the Pixies, or Nirvana’s swan song, In Utero.
History Repeats Itself at Columbia

Apr 30, 2024 | buttondown.email | David Swanson |George F. Kennan |Simon James |F.W. Dupee

April 30, 2024 Last night, as a group of activists took over Hamilton Hall just hours after Columbia University administrators had begun suspending students and clearing an anti-war encampment, there was a sense that history was repeating itself. Since the sixties, Hamilton Hall has been for protest on the Columbia campus. It was famously taken over by Civil Rights activists and anti-war protestors in April, 1968, and was subsequently seized by students in 1972, 1985, and 1992.
Notable Sandwiches #94: Jambon-Beurre

Apr 19, 2024 | buttondown.email | David Swanson

April 19, 2024 Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in alphabetical order. This week, an iconic Parisien: le jambon-beurre. The jambon-beurre—like the French flag, the French national motto, even traditional French society—consists of just three elements: ham, butter, bread.
Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles: A History of Hollywood in 30 Films

Apr 7, 2024 | buttondown.email | David Swanson

April 7, 2024 Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles: A History of Hollywood in 30 Films BY DAVID SWANSONWelcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or playing. BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBER Want to read the full issue?
100 Years in Babylon: An Archival History of Los Angeles

Mar 31, 2024 | buttondown.email | David Swanson

March 31, 2024, 7:02 p.m. 100 Years in Babylon: An Archival History of Los Angeles By David SwansonWelcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or playing. BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBER Want to read the full issue?