Just this week on Keep It, I was mourning Gwyneth Paltrow’s film career. Yes, her ski trial has been endlessly memeable (and Louis and I discussed it on the podcast so I won’t get into it here), but Gwyneth is an ACTRESS. Enough of this GOOP nonsense. She’s made her empire. We need the art again. And I truly, truly loved her in The Royal Tenenbaums, which is still Wes Anderson’s magnum opus to me.

Last week, Rev. Al Sharpton caused some titters to erupt across the internet by his commentary on the Trump indictment over the Jan. 6th issue. “One day our children’s children will read American history,” Sharpton said, “and can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government so they could stay in power?” As many noted, Sharpton apparently failed to get the memo that such is exactly what James Madison and Thomas Jefferson did when they helped found our nation.

Disclaimer: This post is not about *current* conditions in Gaza, which has become a war zone and a hellscape. This post is about *pre-war* conditions in Gaza––the conditions that, according to some, provoked Hamas to begin this war in the first place. Like many people, I have been consuming lots of Norman Finkelstein content lately, including his book on Gaza. According to Finkelstein and other critics of Israel, pre-war conditions in Gaza were beyond hellish.

This publication has devoted significant space to explicating the ideas of georgism as they apply to the modern world. However, some confusions still exist about the essential nature of the georgist program. In order to provide additional clarity as to what georgism is, we find it imperative to correct several common errors, and state definitively what georgism is not. One common assertion (or objection) is that georgism is simply a form of socialism.

A few weeks ago, I found myself rewatching The Originals, the CW Network show about the first vampire siblings, which found them vowing to stay by each other “always and forever.” I started pondering why so many shows with cult followings focus on the evolving relationships between siblings or long-time friends. Despite our general cultural obsession with romantic relationships, Supernatural, Buffy, Boy Meets World, How I Met Your Mother, and other shows all held family — those that are chosen and those given from birth — at their core.