The Fierce Ignorance of Now

How thinking things are worse than ever makes things worse.

Apr 7

(Photograph by Erik McGregor/LightRocket/Getty Images.)

The past is really surprising if you don’t know it.

I was already working on this “news”letter when I saw this tweet:

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