Monday once again. What is it about Monday?
Ennio Morricone has died. He made some amazing and very memorable music. Peter Bradshaw recounts his accomplishments.
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Jack Herrera writes about confusion over what the slogan defund the police really means. He thinks journalists are watering it down because they aren’t familiar with the purist interpretation or because they’re afraid of the political implications of promoting the actual elimination of police departments. But isn’t that how slogans work? No one owns them. They’re just memes open to interpretation. They take on meaning as they spread. The less we know about what they actually mean the quicker they catch on.
Murders are up in cities nationwide but crime is down. OK. Experts chalk this up to it just being a weird year.
Britons have a dilemma as things are opening up. Where should they go first, the hairdresser or the pub?
And with a shortage of live sports, ESPN is bringing us The Eagles pre-recorded. The ones from Los Angeles, not Philadelphia. A concert from 2018.