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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
At the start of the Second World War, the English poet W. H. Auden—when he looked out over the new technologies of destruction that had been created by humans—warned: “We must love one another, or die.” I believe that now we must focus together—or face the fires alone.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
we underappreciated people’s attachment to place. We underappreciated the necessity of community. I think now we’re suffering the consequence of that with a lot of communities destroyed—many of them now feeling they don’t have a place in a modern economy, and don’t have a sense of identity.
ro khanna • Ro Khanna makes the case for digital public space
why on earth would we believe that a colonizing impulse would magically lead to universal prosperity this time around?
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
The American Dream remains defined by whiteness and masculinity, no matter who occupies the role; our most rewarded and celebrated leaders, even if they are not…
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