Crash Course: Guns, Republicans and "manliness": We all suffer from the right's mental health crisis

Republican men seem massively troubled about their masculinity — and that's literally causing death and suffering [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmxci_P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvb2x5MHp4eG00Yy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWF3eGs2MjYxeWFXA3NwY0IKZNu_Q-NkyXEguFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmxci_P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdmNpbjhzaGZqci8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWF3eGs2MjYxeWEmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZNu_Q-NkyXEguFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Guns, Republicans and "manliness": We all suffer from the right's mental health crisis From Kirk Swearingen: Many men who vote Republican, it seems, are too focused on propping up their fragile masculinity to seek help in any case. (It might make them look like "betas.") Far too often, a right-wing man gets so worked up about a perceived threat to his manliness that he goes on a shooting rampage with assault-style weapons, which the Supreme Court has helpfully explained is every American's God-given right, under the twisted logic that there was no "history or tradition" in the 18th century of prohibiting high-powered firearms that hadn't been invented. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmxci_P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvZ3pyODlhOXg3eS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWF3eGs2MjYxeWEmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZNu_Q-NkyXEguFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). "I want to believe": Alice Hoffman is always seeking magic, practical and otherwise Her new novel, "[The Invisible Hour](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmxci_P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvZXVpdDYycWkwZC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWF3eGs2MjYxeWFXA3NwY0IKZNu_Q-NkyXEguFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo)" twists time. Lonely and ostracized Mia has been raised in the cloistered Community, a cult in western Massachusetts. Though books are outlawed by the Community, she finds secret solace in them. Specifically, one book: "[The Scarlet Letter](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmxci_P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvNHJzdTlpdGY1by8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWF3eGs2MjYxeWFXA3NwY0IKZNu_Q-NkyXEguFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo)" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. And in the second half of Hoffman's novel, she finds herself going back in time to encounter the writer whose words she feels showed her a way to survive. Hoffman talked with Salon about Hawthorne, writing during a time of COVID and finding magic in the real world still. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmxci_P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdGRyaHJuZnIzYS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWF3eGs2MjYxeWEmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZNu_Q-NkyXEguFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). 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One of her most-cited [studies](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmxci_P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvNTIyMXFmYnplZS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWF3eGs2MjYxeWFXA3NwY0IKZNu_Q-NkyXEguFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) detailed what we know about the habitability of planets orbiting red dwarf stars, which are [smaller and cooler](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmxci_P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvMDlwMXBtazF4by8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWF3eGs2MjYxeWEmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZNu_Q-NkyXEguFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) than stars like ours. Because red dwarf stars make up more than 70% of known stars in the universe, this opens up a world — or rather, billions of worlds — of possibilities for where [alien life](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmxci_P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvN3NqNXQ1dWNmMS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWF3eGs2MjYxeWEmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZNu_Q-NkyXEguFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) could exist. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmxci_P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvN3pkZzY3a3g2by8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWF3eGs2MjYxeWEmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZNu_Q-NkyXEguFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). [Unsubscribe from this list](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmxci_P0RCaHR0cHM6Ly9yZWFkLmxldHRlcmhlYWQuZW1haWwvY3Jhc2gtY291cnNlL3Vuc3Vic2NyaWJlP2lkPUAzNTQzOTUyVwNzcGNCCmTbv0PjZMlxILhSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjg1QGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAKA~~) Copyright © 2023 Crash Course, All rights reserved. 1000 N. 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