The MAGA revolution threatens America's most innovative place
(economist.com)
The MAGA revolution threatens America’s most innovative place
The MAGA revolution threatens America’s most innovative place
The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain
(newyorker.com)
Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.
Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.
Henry James was not at home in America
(newrepublic.com)
Contra Thomas Wolfe, you actually can go home again—but once you see how much it’s changed, you may want to leave just as quickly.
Contra Thomas Wolfe, you actually can go home again—but once you see how much it’s changed, you may want to leave just as quickly.
Buy, Borrow, Die: How to be a billionaire and pay no taxes
(theatlantic.com)
America’s superrich have always found ways to avoid paying taxes, but in recent years, they’ve discovered what might be the mother of all loopholes.
America’s superrich have always found ways to avoid paying taxes, but in recent years, they’ve discovered what might be the mother of all loopholes.
The Euro-American Split (I): Dread Possibility
(scholars-stage.org)
THERE ARE DECADES WHEN possibility is constrained in a narrow frame. The terrain has been surveyed, boundaries have been laid, and rules have been established. In such an age there is still room for high drama: The decisive round of a boxing match draws the eye despite the fact—or perhaps because—the boxers play an antique game. In such times and climes, victory means mastery of existing modes, not the invention of new ones.
THERE ARE DECADES WHEN possibility is constrained in a narrow frame. The terrain has been surveyed, boundaries have been laid, and rules have been established. In such an age there is still room for high drama: The decisive round of a boxing match draws the eye despite the fact—or perhaps because—the boxers play an antique game. In such times and climes, victory means mastery of existing modes, not the invention of new ones.
The Invisible Man: Homelessness in America
(esquire.com)
We see right through the unshowered soul living in a car by the beach, or by the Walmart, or by the side of the road. But he’s there, and he used to be somebody. He still is. A firsthand account of homelessness in America.
We see right through the unshowered soul living in a car by the beach, or by the Walmart, or by the side of the road. But he’s there, and he used to be somebody. He still is. A firsthand account of homelessness in America.