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This April, I felt exceptionally fortunate to donate our seventeen-year-old nearly-300,000 mile car and purchase its replacement: a certified pre-owned fully-electric BMW i4.

Emmett Rensin, writing at Los Angeles Review of Books: But if it is childish, if any of this—the outrage, the horror, the belief that something must be done—is childish, it is only because a child could see it.

Omar El Akkad: For members of every generation, there comes a moment of complete and completely emptying disgust when it is revealed there is only a hollow.

Peter Coviello: For some time I’ve been saying that the storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism.

Work is service, not gain.

Is there anything better than chasing flying toy faeries around your yard with your ten-year-old?

Maybe I’m grasping at straws, but this article the most optimistic thing I’ve read in a few years, though of course tempered by the current political disaster: Instead of relying on scattered deposits of fossil fuel—the control of which has largely defined

Atul Gawande at The New Yorker, The Cost of Defunding Harvard: Sarah Fortune, a professor and the chair of the department of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard’s school of public health, is among the world’s leading experts on tuberculosis, the…

Lydia Kiesling on Refusing to Speak at an Anti-Trans University A large group of people feels one way, while a small group with a disproportionate amount of structural power tells them they are wrong to feel it.

Ian Millhiser, on the Supreme Court beat at Vox: …so there’s no guarantee that a majority of the justices will follow existing law in White Lion, no matter how clear that law may be.

Roxane Gay, writing at The New York Times: These are adults, so let us treat them like adults.

Is someone afraid of change?