Activity

[...] Yes, my own personal brain chemistry is something I must reckon with, but doing so while navigating a cruel health care system, with the goal of remaining healthy enough to face a laughably uncertain financial future, all in service to surviving a world that is everywhere immiserating, hardly…

Something about the National has always felt like an escape, which is at face value an odd thing to say about a band whose subject is mainly sadness and anxiety. It’s both easy to and fun to make jokes about this band being the saddest band, the saddest dads, a band full of sad dads who really love…

[...] I have frequently tried to get my husband to listen to the National, but before this, it had never stuck. His only comment last summer, when I put all their albums on shuffle on Spotify and played it in the car was, “Is that guy going to apologize again?”

But last week, he texted me that h…

Debt hangs heavy for the bulk of the planet. In 1 970, when the Third World project was intact, the sixty states classified as "low-income" by the Eorld Bank owed commercial lenders and international agencies $25 billion. Three decades later, the debt of these states ballooned to $523 billion. An i…

[...] The East Asian miracle, for Rajaratnam, was located in the city.
This was not the industrial town of the nineteenth century. These cities
represented the new mobile epoch of IMF-driven globalization. The idea
of the global city ignored production, emphasized consumption, and
made money th…