Sublime

Christopher Columbus had first reported seeing Indians bouncing a ball made from the strange, sticky substance that bled from tropical trees, but it wasn’t until 1896, when B. F. Goodrich manufactured the first automobile tires in the United States, that rubber madness consumed the Amazon, which held a virtual monopoly on the highest-quality latex.

disadvantaged neighborhoods with higher levels of “collective efficacy”—the stuff of loosely linked neighbors who trust one another and share expectations about how to make their community better—have lower crime rates.3 A single eviction could destabilize multiple city blocks, not only the block from which a family was evicted but also the block

world). Opportunity can be hoarded, then, not only by abandoning public goods for private ones, but also by leveraging individual fortunes to acquire access to exclusive public goods, buying yourself into an upscale community. In many corners of America, a pricey mortgage doesn’t just buy a home; it also buys a good education, a well-run soccer

In the arc of history, the freedom to explore the possibilities of our lives is a relatively recent phenomenon.

Am liebsten hätten sie die Hoteldächer wieder mit Stroh gedeckt, um ganz gewiß die alten zu bleiben, aber das neue Geld damit zu machen. Die Heimat ist in Gefahr, aber die Heimat kam in Wirklichkeit nur durch die Heimatverteidiger in Gefahr, sie war eine Gefahr für ihn und viele andere, die über das nächste Tal nicht hinausschauen wollten, und er

Once home to perhaps twenty-five families, enough to hold an annual festival and organize a soccer league for the men, Hong Kong by 2001 had only four Khatri families. I had met all of them at a Divali party at Hemesh's place the night before our interview; they barely filled the apartment. Some of the children were growing up with Chinese accents

Bobby recognized that Chinese people would have little interest in the libertarian ideas of American Bitcoiners—decades of state-sponsored communism had killed most interest in ideologies.

In 2020, a study in The Lancet reported that out of two hundred countries, China had seen the largest increase in boys’ height, and the third largest in girls’, since 1985.