The Discourse Report: September 2, 2021

Biden defends Afghanistan evacuation, new major study on mask efficacy, Hurricane Ida's damage, and more

Welcome to DiscRep, your guide to the public discourse. I’m Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere), editor in chief of Arc Digital.

Reads

1. The Descent of the Partisan Mind by David French in The Dispatch on 8/31/21

If you could draw a Venn diagram between those who believed, in turn, that 1) COVID was basically the flu; 2) mandatory masking and social distancing…