• Meet John Purroy Mitchel, the young man who took on Tammany Hall and became the second-youngest mayor of New York City. (Bowery Boys History)

• “What Money Really Means in Jane Austen’s Work.” (Literary Hub)

• An incomplete list of John Aubrey’s interests. (LRB Blog)

• A dispatch from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. (Paris Review Daily)

• The eighteenth-century argument for universal basic income. (JSTOR Daily)

• “Can Soviet Satire Offer Clues to the Future of American Comedy?” (Zócalo Public Square)

• “Horwath uses Reagan’s soothing, God-on-our-side triumphalism as a foil for Fonda’s near-pathological honesty and skepticism; Fonda bluntly said that listening to Reagan’s speeches made him want to throw up.” (Current)

• On how Fort Bragg created narco states: “They went into the Iraq War as a very niche organization that existed to hunt down former regime officials and look for those weapons of mass destruction, which turned out not to exist. But over the course of the war, JSOC evolved into a much larger and bloodier organization with a much larger and broader target set.” (Jacobin)

• This week in obituaries: Charlie Kirk, Bruce Loose, Joseph McNeil, Stuart Craig, Rick Davies, Polly Holiday, Rosa Roisinblit, Christoph von Dohnányi, Harold Matzner, Jacques Charrier, John Burton, Davey Johnson, David Keighley, David Baltimore, Mark Volman, and the Duchess of Kent.