IF YOU WANT a juicy longread to sink your teeth into, you’ve come to the right place.
Here are three to save for a moment of peace, or devour straight away.
1. Taylor Swift’s passive-aggressive revenge
Taylor Swift may seem rather sweet, and claim that she’s never thought about songwriting as a weapon, but perhaps that’s not actually the case at all…
(The Paris Review, 17 mins)
But still, Taylor would not own up to her song subjects. Either because she just loves getting off on a technicality, or she thinks we’re idiots. I believe it’s the former. Because between the liner notes and the timelines, there’s really no way to doubt it: if you just broke up with Taylor Swift, that there song is most certainly about you.
Rodricus Crawford’s son was found dying in bed, and Crawford was charged with his murder. But was he even guilty?
(New Yorker, 30 mins)
Traylor said that his finding of suffocation was based entirely on the bruises on Roderius’s lips, but he never sampled the tissue to date the injury, a basic test that would have revealed whether the bruises came from the earlier fall in the bathroom, an explanation that he ignored. He misstated medical science, telling the jury that Roderius’s brain had swelled as a result of suffocation.
How do you find domestic extremists like Dylann Roof, in a digital age? Some suggest that there should be more of a focus on terrorists at home, rather than foreign jihadi threats.
(The Guardian, 13 mins)
“Before, it was personal,” said John D Cohen, until recently the top counter-terrorism coordinator for the Department of Homeland Security. “Someone’s boss or father would get killed. Now we’re seeing people with similar behavioural traits gravitating to an ideological cause and going to tactics once reserved for terrorist organisations.”
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