The Atlantic: Let's Be Real, Hard Seltzer Is Gross.

Though this is from 7-8 years ago and is rly long, it’s an excellent example of what I’ve interpreted “Alt-woke” to mean. It’s poetic and earnest with that perfect balance of lightheartedness and dismay, adeptly mapping irony/cynicism as a _...Read More_

The Mantra of White Supremacy.

>"A raft of evidence shows that caste discrimination has been imported from India to the United States."

"The big reveal: Google and Facebook are marketing companies. That is how they make money. What is more extraordinary is how much the two companies have thus far dominated their markets. Zuboff reports that between 2012 and 2016 Google and _...Read More_

"Social codes are changing, in many ways for the better. But for those whose behavior doesn’t adapt fast enough to the new norms, judgment can be _...Read More_

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.

>"What new polls reveal about American priorities"

"In The Underground Railroad, Jenkins focuses how people survived slavery rather than on its brutality."

"Many people who came of age in the 1950s and 60s view the Supreme Court as a force for good when it comes to race. But the court has often been the most anti-progressive branch of the federal government."

"The movement’s architects saw the inadequacy of liberal solutions to racial injustice. Yet the term has become a lullaby by which liberals self-soothe."

There’s a tension worth digging at here between the individual and the system that I think Katz has a tough time clearing up, but overall worthwhile read. Like, to say that the historical suppression/cultural repression we see in the US is _...Read More_

"The Making of the American Gulag from Boston Review. During the Cold War, the “police apparatus” was held up as a prime example of Soviet repression. Yet in its efforts to fight subversives, the United States ended up with its own carceral _...Read More_

"The Making of the American Gulag from Boston Review. During the Cold War, the “police apparatus” was held up as a prime example of Soviet repression. Yet in its _...Read More_

"No matter where one starts the clock—Jimmy Carter’s Airline Deregulation and Motor Carrier Acts, the repeal of Glass-Steagall; the _...Read More_