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The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest | The New Yorker
Kathryn Schulznewyorker.com
According to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal... See more
In so many ways to live in 2024 is to be subject to a constant and all-out assault on our attention . It’s the ability to attend to anything — a book, another person, ourselves — that is being eroded.
David Mattin from New World Same Humans • New Week #138
The Yellowstone Club Billionaires Buying Montana’s Mountains - New York Magazine
Ben Ryder Howe • The Yellowstone Club Billionaires Buying Montana’s Mountains — New York Magazine
DC is being gentrified like major cities everywhere. It raises the question: To whom does this place belong? That is a local question, but it is also an existential one. We are literally still fighting over whether Black people belong to their home places and whether their home places belong to them. Once, the formerly enslaved migrated to DC with
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social... See more