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

The Accidental Hilarity of the Anti-Woke

1 week 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 week 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

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. 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”

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!“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

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: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.
How to Write a Commencement Speech

3 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!Graduation season is upon us, which visits upon the land a perineal plague: graduation speeches. If you think listening to graduation speeches is tough, try writing one.
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:This piece on the winding down of our culture is some of the smartest cultural analysis I can remember reading. (Spencer Kornhaber)Love me some Luke Kirby, and I think I’m going to enjoy Étoile. Pilot was solid. We set up a merch table in the back where you can get T-shirts, coffee mugs, and even tote bags now.
Hell Hath No Furries

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!The reason the Texas legislature meets for only five months every other year is to limit the damage they can do. An unintended consequence of this is that legislators have to cram as much activity into those five months as possible if a bill is ever to become law.
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:I am so mad I didn’t think of any of these parenting hacks. (free link)I guarantee you’ll have a couple “I didn’t know that!” moments in John McWhorter’s latest. (free link)I’ve written about Nina Jankowiczbefore. Looks like the yokels just can’t holding her accountable for made-up crimes. (free link)This is weird.
Donald Trump is a Russian Stooge

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!Once again, we’re back into the time-space blender. Trump’s governing philosophy is best described as quantum self-harm.