It's both very insightful and eminently readable!

For what it's worth: I also don't have a high opinion of Rogue One. It seemed like an average movie that was made a lot better by lacking so many of the flaws of other recent Star Wars films (Solo is particularly awful and I dropped it after 15 minutes or so).

Yes. I was thinking more Guns of Navarrone, though.

I'm genuinely curious. Why does an ensemble story need "an actual protagonist"?

The linking element is, I think, Straussianism. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

I also object to cops doing traffic enforcement.

Yes I found that article shocking when I read it last year, even as someone who has tried to keep up with the reading wars.

Obviously it's a much wider systemic and cultural problem, too. But teacher education feels like a genuine point of intervention.

We need to do something about teacher education in this country. I've spent time in some remarkable math and language arts classrooms over the years as a volunteer, but also some that made me want to protest the sheer incompetence on display.

If I were a parent, this would drive me mad.

Who could possibly object to more enforcement of this? If you text and drive: you should lose your license for a year and have to take a class where you look at pictures of people who have lost limbs from car accidents. Simple!

IN MANHATTAN. The one place you really don't need to fucking drive. My brother, you can text all you want on the subway.

On the 15 day DL