Sublime

Ray Oldenburg,

Like twentieth-century Russian workers or nineteenth-century Polynesians, the American working class—or at least the white part of it—which could once hope for steady work at decent pay, has lost much of its way of life.

Harley had decided to give up on lawn care and go to work installing residential gas pipelines. There

The globe-trotter lives in a smaller world than the peasant.

floodlit Bojangles’ up the hill from his house, and that meat would be drowned in the bubbling fryers by employees whose hatred of the job would leak into the cooked food, and that food would be served up and eaten by customers who would grow obese and end up in the hospital in Greensboro with diabetes or heart failure, a burden to the public, and

Simple trips to the market or the toilet can turn into adventures; simple conversations can lead to charming friendships. Life

Our subdivision's development was linked to a massive demographic shift that had begun before World War II. As African Americans migrated up from the South for jobs in northern cities, whites abandoned those cities. They paved over more and more of the plains, inventing suburban sprawl to satisfy a need—not simply for land, but for white land. In D

because in America you got nothing for free.