Is College Football Making the Pandemic Worse?

Plus: an interview with Deb Perelman, Helen Rosner on the joylessness of cooking, and Trump’s final cruelty. View in browser | Update your preferences The Sporting Scene Is College Football Making the Pandemic Worse? The game has a remarkable power to bring people together. Right now, that’s a problem. By Louisa Thomas The New Yorker Interview Deb Perelman Is Thankful for Tacos The Smitten Kitchen chef on pandemic cravings, cooking ruts, and the upsides of a strange Thanksgiving. By Hannah Goldfield Kitchen Notes The Joylessness of Cooking Feelings of emptiness are normal in times of stress and uncertainty. But isn’t cooking supposed to be a balm? By Helen Rosner PAID POST Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement A history of the anti-vaccination movement, from its nineteenth-century antecedents to today’s anti-vax activism, offering strategies for refuting its claims. Letter from Silicon Valley How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism Even the worst-run startup can beat competitors if investors prop it up. The V.C. firm Benchmark helped enable WeWork to make one wild mistake after another—hoping that its gamble would pay off before disaster struck. By Charles Duhigg From the News Desk Daily Comment Trump and a Lesson in How Coups Fail In countries without free elections, fraud and coercion regularly make a difference. But that’s not the country we have, and it’s not the election we had. By Amy Davidson Sorkin Daily Comment Trump’s Final Cruelty: Executing Prisoners Despite losing the election, the Administration plans to put Brandon Bernard and four other federal prisoners to death. By E. Tammy Kim Cultural Comment What Good Government Looks Like Frederick Wiseman’s documentary film “City Hall” displays the thankless work of keeping society from falling to pieces. By Louis Menand Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts We’re Being So Safe We’ve decided it’s better not to do anything for Thanksgiving this year. We’re just going to have a small dinner. . . . By Susanna Wolff Crossword Today’s Puzzle Organizer who said, “Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair”: eleven letters. By Erik Agard Daily Cartoon Wednesday, November 25th By Tim Hamilton This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To insure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.