The Sword and the Sandwich

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  • Dec 10, 2023 | theswordandthesandwich.substack.com | Jonathan Sumption |David Samuels |David Swanson |Karl Decker

    Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I write about what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. Please enjoy this free preview, and consider upgrading to support two struggling journalists at once! — Talia2023 has been a banner year in the history of the scam, thanks mostly to George Santos, the man who put the “con” in Congress.

  • Dec 5, 2023 | theswordandthesandwich.substack.com | Talia Lavin

    As I write these words, an American election is going on, in the way that American elections go on, and on, and on—years and months of un-fun pageantry as grim-faced candidates and odds-obsessed journalists take stock of a contest for power. It’s surreal, in a way, to go on with life—the making and eating of meals, the earning of small money, the doing of everyday deeds—knowing that by this time next year, the character of this country will be on the precipice of a permanent and dark alteration.

  • Nov 14, 2023 | theswordandthesandwich.substack.com | Talia Lavin

    Discover more from The Sword and the SandwichCovering far-right extremism, sandwiches, and everything in between. Over 15,000 subscribers This week, The New Yorker, an august magazine from which I resigned in national disgrace five years ago, dedicated its entire issue (and a lovely signature cover!) to A.I., in all its fearful possibilities.

  • Oct 31, 2023 | theswordandthesandwich.substack.com | Talia Lavin

    Last week, as part of my general declaration of witchcraft and retirement from society, I offered to hex your exes if you wrote in with a request. Today is the day I fulfill that promise, to the best of my ability. But, boy, can I say, the letters were pretty intense?

  • Oct 29, 2023 | theswordandthesandwich.substack.com | Talia Lavin

    ​​​​Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I write about what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. Please enjoy this free preview, and consider upgrading to support two struggling journalists at once! — TaliaTall. Slender. Sinister. An angular face, huge expressive eyes, and that voice…Deep, sonorous, lush, hypnotic.

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