Evening Roundup, August 26: Mail

Culture Row Dolly Parton’s Greatest Legacy Was Her Giving On Tuesday, Dolly Parton’s family announced the death of the beloved country music icon, a woman whose career spanned so many decades and so many disciplines, who wrote so many unforgettable songs and inspired so many people through her j… Heidi Overton and the Overton Window Last week, President Trump posted to Truth Social his plan to nominate Dr. Heidi Overton as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). (The Contrarian covered the departure of her predecessor, Dr. Marty Makary, when he was pushed out in May.) Click here to join us LIVE at 9:15 AM tomorrow with Norm, April, & Jonathan Barry-Blocker I've been thinking about why just about everybody, including me, is gushing about Dolly Parton. It actually makes perfect sense. In a world where empathy is derided and treated as weakness, she never ceased to demonstrate empathy. There were no excluded groups. She didn't make negative noise. She was almost literally a "breath of fresh air" right up to the end of her life. This is incredibly rare and so desperately needed. There's always the Overton defenestration.