This Is How We Fall Out of Love With the World

I keep thinking of a conversation I had last month with Caroline O’Donoghue, the brilliant author of The Rachel Incident . We were talking about the route she took to writing the book, and the prevalence of Irish authors in pop culture. She stopped the wandering conversation in the way you do when you want someone to be very clear about how things ... See more

Instead, each person should be able to take the money they’ve saved on taxes and pay for the stuff that matters to them : their own art, their own private schools, their own concierge doctors, their own backyards. That’s liberty . I find this type of thinking counter to pretty much everything I believe, but I also grew up in a place where a lot of ... See more