Jason Stanford

Dallas

Founder and Writer at The Experiment

Cowriter of NYT best-selling Forget the Alamo. Currently: @dallasisd. Ex: @austinisd, @HKStrategies_US, @MayorAdler, @ppfa, @OppResearchSC, Ann Richards

Articles

"...to remain human in an inhuman time"

5 days ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to the weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free. Thanks for reading!I did not expect Wes Anderson’s 2014 anti-fascist confection The Grand Budapest Hotel to be so prescient, but to be fair, how was I to expect Donald Trump to tear that dollhouse down? This was a year before he descended the golden staircase.
Your Mid-Week Experiment

1 week ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free. Let’s get right to it:“What is it called when the terrorists are agents of the state?” -Elise Hu (free link)“…would a truly history-altering incident of domestic terrorism look so … tacky?” -Monica Hesse (gift link)This song runs on an infinite loop in my head.
FW: FW: FW: FW: America

2 weeks ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to the weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free. Thanks for reading!I couldn’t write an essay last weekend, not because there is nothing to write about but because I felt unequal to the task.
Your Mid-Week Experiment

2 weeks ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free. Let’s get right to it:This piece by Diana Moskovitz about the WTF Podcast “is the best piece that will ever be written about our show!” says Marc Maron. It was so good I held this Experiment back so I’d have time to read it before hitting send.
Your Mid-Week Experiment

3 weeks ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free. Let’s get right to it:You will never look at ham, Slack chats, or France the same way after reading this. h/t Frank Spring (free link)“[Y]oung men haven't stopped caring about democracy.
The Accidental Hilarity of the Anti-Woke

4 weeks ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to the weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free. Thanks for reading!It was a statement so unintentionally funny that my brain broke a little.
Biden Got Old. Why Did I Ignore It?

1 month ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to the weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free.
Your Mid-Week Experiment

1 month ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free. SubscribedLet’s get right to it:The words “fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit” captures how gobsmackingly dumb things have gotten. h/t Elie Jacobs (free link)This is the only thing you need to read about what Trump is doing to the National Endowment of the Arts, but you really need to read it.
"...as prioritized by the President”

1 month ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to the weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free. Thanks for reading!“We used to have an American system,” said my aunt, referring to the recent rescission of literature grants at the National Endowment of the Arts.
Your Mid-Week Experiment

1 month ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free. Let’s get right to it:We are not in cultural collapse. It’s actually a time of renewal, or nearly so, argues Ted Gioia. (free link)Which is not to say, as Rachel Larimore writes, that we aren’t in a cultural decline. (free link)Usually, writing about how you’re too busy and have a lot of money is a recipe for cringe.