Notable Sandwiches #132: Pastrami
Hello, and welcome back to the Sword and the Sandwich! I’ve been struggling with a particularly pernicious case of writer’s block, for months now. Not being...
We Keep Us Safe: On Antifa
This past Saturday, Donald Trump announced that his administration would be deploying federal troops to Portland, OR, authorizing the military to use “full...
September Book Club
Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where my editor David Swanson and I discuss what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid...
The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting
Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I discuss what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. As...
Ministry of Violence
James Dobson is dead, leaving behind the legacy of poisoned politics he created, and countless children and adults who live with the pain of surviving the...
Princes of the City
Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I discuss what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. This...
Let Us Now Praise Eater.com
If you’ve been reading this newsletter long enough—and bother clicking through the links—you may have noticed that Eater.com is an invaluable resource for...
A Queer Shoulder to the Wheel
A version of this piece was originally published in Flaming Hydra, an art collective I'm proud to be a part of. Then I let David loose to edit as he does so...
The Great Sword Heist of 2025
Your regular sandwich feature has been held up by a robbery. Quite seriously, I couldn’t focus on pastrami this week because … my entire sword collection was...
July Culture Chat
Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I discuss what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. BECOME...
Notable Sandwiches: Pastrami Preview
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David and I invite you to pull up a table at the moveable feast that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Donald Trump's Dictator Chic
Last week, the hoax-busting website Snopes felt compelled to fact check the Oval Office. Specifically, a reader had written in, asking whether a viral photo...
Introducing... the Sword and the Sandwich Book Club!!
This is an announcement, and also a plea. I know times are hard all around, but it’s a particularly dismal time to be a journalist of any stripe right now....
Notable Sandwiches #131: Panuozzo
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David and I invite you to pull up a table at the moveable feast that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Who Benefits from Destroying the Department of Education
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can go ahead with its ambitious, ruinous plan of gutting the Department of Education, firing...
Notable Sandwiches #130: Panini
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my intrepid editor David Swanson and I take our seats at the big strange table that is Wikipedia’s List...
That Tears Shall Drown the Wind
And pity, like a naked new-born babe,Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsedUpon the sightless couriers of the air,Shall blow the horrid deed in...
Everyone Is Welcome to My Mountains
Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I discuss what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. This...
Notable Sandwiches July 4th Special: Barbecue
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, led gently by my brilliant and long-suffering editor David Swanson, wade through the rough waters of...
Writing into the Wreck
I, for one, never asked to live in a collapsing empire. The feeling of what you thought to be solid ground turning to a shower of scree under your feet, the...