Sublime

Fourth, people write.

In 1964, the Ripon Society, a progressive Republican think tank, put out a widely circulated “open letter to the new generation of Republicans.” In the letter, they described what they saw as the critical distinction between the “moderate” and the “extremist”: The moderate recognizes that there are a variety of means available to him, but that ther

became intrigued by this and located the source of the pilchard: a packer in Peru. In June 1982, my wife, Alice, and I went to Lima to visit the canning plant. We witnessed something very interesting: the United States had a quota for imported tuna. Once Peru’s quota had been filled, a biological miracle occurred right there on the canning line. Wh

Ever since Reagan, the Republican Party has been a coalition of business interests and downscale whites, many of them evangelical Christians. By 2010 it was like a figure in a hall of mirrors whose head and body have been severed but continue to move as if they’re still attached. The persistence of the coalition required an immense amount of self-d

David Coles’s updated Soft Paths: How to Enjoy the Wilderness Without Harming It is

dyed-in-the-wool

Mill argued that conventional ways of living tend to “degenerate into the mechanical’’ and that if societal norms are too strong or rigid, original thinkers who would otherwise experiment will be stifled.

However, he continues, over the last 50 years the need for people to be “legible” and fit into a standard model of work has merely become “industrially preferable.” This puts government and institutional leaders in a position where they are incentivized to convince people that following rigid paths in their institutions is the correct path for ever