laphamsquarterly: There must be something about the beginning of summer that breeds American braggadocio, because it’s also Clint Eastwood’s birthday. Nathaniel Rich wrote about Eastwood’s Dirty Harry series for our “Crime and Punishment” issue, saying “they reflect a sense, prevalent at the time, that America’s cities were careening out of control, sliding into a barbaric vortex of wanton criminality”. We highly recommend reading it. Or you could just keep looking at that picture. We know you are. It’s okay.

laphamsquarterly:

There must be something about the beginning of summer that breeds American braggadocio, because it’s also Clint Eastwood’s birthday. Nathaniel Rich wrote about Eastwood’s Dirty Harry series for our “Crime and Punishment” issue, saying “they reflect a sense, prevalent at the time, that America’s cities were careening out of control, sliding into a barbaric vortex of wanton criminality”. We highly recommend reading it.

Or you could just keep looking at that picture. We know you are. It’s okay.