America, This Is You. Grow Up.

This video of parents acting like children outside of a Tennessee school board meeting—over masks, mind you—is the death rattle for a specific brand of American feeling. [View in Browser]( [Alternate text] SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE [America, This Is You. Grow the Hell Up.]( [America, This Is You. Grow the Hell Up.]( The camera really can reveal our truest selves. It’s a mirror, often a harsh one under unflattering light. This has perhaps never been truer than last night, outside a school board meeting in Williamson County, Tennessee, as a mask mandate was reinstated for elementary school students, teachers, and bus drivers. Take a good look, because America, America: this is you. “You have a place in Hell,” screams a furious young man at a health official, voice raw from what must have been a long time of furious screaming. “You will never be allowed in public again.” “We know who you are, you can leave freely but we will find you,” an older guy threatens the same health official, in full view of the police officers who are one foot away. [Read More]( [The Bag That'll Have You Looking Forward to Commuting Again. No, Really.]( [The Bag That'll Have You Looking Forward to Commuting Again. No, Really.]( Whether you're headed to the office or just walking around the neighborhood, reach for Everlane's ReNew Transit Backpack. [Read More]( [Polo's Perfect End-of-Summer Swim Trunks Are On Sale Right Now]( [Polo's Perfect End-of-Summer Swim Trunks Are On Sale Right Now]( Ralph Lauren's nautical-print bathing suit is 30% off at Saks. [Read More](    [You Really Gotta Be Nicer to Your Server]( [You Really Gotta Be Nicer to Your Server]( A post-vax boom of chaotic behavior and delta variant-inspired fear have both put the service industry in a tough spot. The least you can do is not be a dick. [Read More]( ['Jeopardy!' Will Have Two Permanent Hosts]( ['Jeopardy!' Will Have Two Permanent Hosts]( In an unprecedented move for the show, Mike Richards and Mayim Bialik are set to share hosting duties. [Read More](    [Look at the Anti-Science in Our National Reaction to COVID. Then Imagine If the Marburg Virus Made It Here.]( [Look at the Anti-Science in Our National Reaction to COVID. Then Imagine If the Marburg Virus Made It Here.]( For the last few weeks, Charles P. Pierce has been wondering what this country would have done if, instead of COVID—which is bad enough, God knows—it had been hit by a virulently contagious disease for which there was neither a completely successful therapy nor a vaccine. After all, since at least the winter, the primary vector for COVID has been the cultivated ignorance of a third of the population and the stubborn refusal of so many of our fellow citizens to save their own lives. What if the disease that hit us was one for which there was nothing for charlatans to lie about? What if there was nothing to refuse? Because they’re out there. [Read More]( [Alternate text] [Inside the Undoing of Phil Spector]( [Inside the Undoing of Phil Spector]( How did a rock n' roll pioneer become a gun-crazy recluse capable of murder? In 2003, in the time between the death of Lana Clarkson and his first trial for her death, the seminal producer sat down with Esquire’s Scott Raab. [Read More]( [Shop the Esquire Men's Jewelry collection available at Macy's!](  Follow Us       
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