| | | | In August, I flew to Austin to interview Brené Brown, the best-selling writer, speaker, consultant, podcast host, and research professor of social work, who inspires her audiences to embrace vulnerability and accept their own imperfections via aphorisms like “Stay awkward, brave, and kind” and “Embrace the suck.” Her podcast “Unlocking Us,” which started in March, 2020, became an emotional lifeline for listeners as they adjusted to the pandemic; last September, Brown began a second podcast, about vulnerability and courage at work, called “Dare to Lead.” In Austin, at U.T.’s McCombs School of Business, she was teaching a new class of the same name to M.B.A. students. “How many of you experienced any kind of loss during COVID?” Brown asked the class. “It was not nothing for you to miss your whole first year.” She thanked them for being there and wearing masks, and congratulated them on not giving up in times of uncertainty. “How many of you have dated someone and not had it work out?” she asked. Hands flew up. “Did you give up completely on love?” The room was quiet. “Yes!” a guy called out, and the room erupted in laughter. Brown laughed, too—and then told them that joy is the most vulnerable emotion. —Sarah Larson Read “Brené Brown’s Empire of Emotion.” Sarah Larson has written recently about eavesdropping during the pandemic and why we still love “The Office.” | | | | From the News Desk | Daily Comment Pope Francis and Joe Biden Will Meet in Rome but Not, Alas, in GlasgowThe Pontiff and the President have common goals on climate change—and similar problems at home. By Paul Elie | | News Desk Mexico’s Historic Step Toward Legalizing AbortionA landmark court ruling gave Mexicans greater rights to the procedure than Texans now have, but opponents have vowed to reverse the decision. By Stephania Taladrid | | | | | Editor’s Pick |  Letter from Israel The Arab-Israeli Power Broker in the KnessetIs Mansour Abbas changing the system or selling out the Palestinian cause? By Ruth Margalit | | | | | Culture Dept. | - Claire Vaye Watkins’s “foray into the canon of mom-lit reads, appropriately, like a piece of writing that did not enter the world easily,” Katy Waldman writes, in her review of the novel “I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness.”
- The German tenor Jonas Kaufmann “may be the most bankable male star in opera today,” Alex Ross notes. But, he adds, “every merry crowd must have at least one unsmiling soul, and in this case the role falls to me.”
- Can virtual reality teach reporters about working in hostile environments? Adam Iscoe put on a headset, and soon “the virtual night air was filled with sirens and shouting, and the journalist tasted that metallic, get-me-out-of-here adrenaline flavor at the back of his mouth.”
| | | | Fun & Games Dept. |  Daily Shouts Beware the Piano-Man! No place on the island is safe from him; / Both Nassau and Suffolk Counties he’ll haunt. By Felipe Torres Medina and Dru Johnston | .jpg) Daily Shouts The Hottest Fall Fonts These typefaces are just right for this season of gathering gloom. By Ali Fitzgerald | |  Name Drop Play Today’s Quiz The fewer clues you need, the more points you receive. By Liz Maynes-Aminzade |  Daily Cartoon Thursday, October 28th By Mick Stevens | | | | | | P.S. The comedian Mort Sahl died this week, at the age of ninety-four. A pioneering standup, Sahl rose to fame in the nineteen-fifties with an act that blended political and social commentary. In 1960, he was the subject of a New Yorker Profile, by Robert Rice, which begins with one of the better magazine openers, of any era: “Mort Sahl, a dark and savage wit who spends most of his working life fulminating through the haze, late at night, from the stage of one night club or another, is almost certainly the most widely acclaimed and best-paid nihilist ever produced by Western civilization. Unlike most men in the upper tax brackets, he is against practically everything.” | | | | Today’s newsletter was written by Ian Crouch. | | | | | | | |
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