“I felt plutocrats grasping at my grief, gathering it like clay for the foundation of a new city — a worse city.” Brilliant writing

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Now I want to know what Nina does next!

If we only frame this as a partisan crisis, we miss the structural threat: a breakdown in how truth is recognised, shared, and defended. That’s the deeper fight.

Done! Love the music & the joyful exploration of these brilliant stories

Really moving. Beautifully devastating.

Also - this need to know more stuff increasingly makes me feel I know nothing as you define yourself by what you don’t know

“I think the humanities could do with more of a balance between the people who know more than anyone else about one thing and the people who see connections between vastly disparate things.”
I think this is true of science too - the connections & relationships are where the interesting stuff happens