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It's time for yet another installment of Lenore and Rahab's monthly patron-only miniseries, "Article Brain!"

This time we wade into two very different, very stupid articles. First, Jacobin asks us why books aren't manly anymore. Then, Larry David (yes, that Larry David) shows that even a generational comedian can't make "socialism is when no iPhone" funny.

Links to the articles. Please do not read them, this is just to cite our sources or whatever:

https://jacobin.com/2026/10/lonesome-dove-reading-novels-men

https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-17/the-view-from-here