leonard cohen Brilliant USC commencement speech on Leonard Cohen, turning off tech, and potato chips Dan Ruderman

music Freaky 1980s Leonard Cohen TV performance David Pescovitz

COVID-19 Celebrating the mad genius of music producer Hal Willner, who has died, likely of COVID-19 Gareth Branwyn

music K. D. Lang stuns the crowd at Fire Fight Australia with "Hallelujah" Gareth Branwyn

poetry Watch Leonard Cohen read "The Only Tourist in Havana Turns His Thoughts Homeward" (1965) David Pescovitz

cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher’s lamp Gina Loukareas

education McMansion Hell tours the homes of the "meritocratic" one-percenters who allegedly bought their thickwitted kids' way into top universities in the college admissions scandal Cory Doctorow

finance AOC grills Equifax CEO: the Congressional record now contains the obvious, infuriating truth that everyone else already knew Cory Doctorow

ireland Anti-corruption yellow vest protesters in Dublin's streets, protesting the 2008 bailout, Catholic church scandals, spiraling housing costs and no legal weed Cory Doctorow

music Deeply moving cello cover of Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry" David Pescovitz

music Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah played on the mbira Andrea James

music Animated interview with Leonard Cohen David Pescovitz

love is not a victory march Watch Kate McKinnon’s heartbreaking SNL cold open Caroline Siede

music Leonard Cohen wrote the perfect anthem for our times Cory Doctorow

music Leonard Cohen, RIP David Pescovitz

politics David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy Cory Doctorow

guily pleasures Let's put the guilt back in guilty pleasures Mark Dery

wilcock JOHN WILCOCK: India, LSD, and Leonard Cohen's 'Flowers for Hitler' Ethan Persoff

Ben Harper and his mom record an album (RiYL podcast 052) Brian Heater