Reading list:

* Windex Ain’t Scared: Here’s Our Statement on Israel/Palestine, by Jeff Maurer

* Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell, by The Onion

* Not Knowing What Else To Do, Woman Bakes American-Flag Cake, by The Onion

* American Life Turns Into Bad Jerry Bruckheimer Movie, by The Onion

My guests on the podcast today are Jeff Maurer, author of “Windex Ain’t Scared,” and my brother Mark Oppenheimer, who selected the text to be the subject of this installment of my special series on the state of the discourse.

Jeff Maurer served honorably in the federal government for eight years until his standup comedy career led him to being hired as a writer on John Oliver's HBO show, Last Week Tonight, where Jeff worked for six years, and he is now the author of the Substack newsletter, I Might Be Wrong, which is hilarious and smart.

Mark is a writer and podcaster based in New Haven, Connecticut, author of many books, most recently Squirrel Hill, The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and The Soul of a Neighborhood, also brilliant and hilarious. He's hard at work on a biography of Judy Blume; is the host of The Syllabus, a podcast about campus politics; and Substacks at Oppenheimer.

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