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As Real America breaks down the ossified libertarianism of Free America, Just America assails the complacent meritocracy of Smart America.
George Packer
theatlantic.com
By the way, let’s take a moment once again to appreciate the fact that a bicycle from 1982 accepts a 130mm wheel and a 9-speed cassette with some gentle persuasion and a few turns of the limit screws, and that there’s enough range left in the derailleur and the shifter that I’m sure 11 speeds would be no problem. Let’s also celebrate the fact that simply updating the cassette and the chain is sufficient to radically improve the quality of the shifts. Will a modern road racing bike age this gracefully and remain similarly useful half a century from now?
Evil Is as Evil Does
Eben Weiss
At that age I had a certain vision of the world, this very tidy, control-freak, Khalil Gibran–reading idea of nobility, like the way to be a good person was to hover righteously above all those weak, dopey sinners down there. Sort of a purity obsession. To go out in the Chicken Van every night was to constantly have that view undercut. Because the whole world was crazy and erratic and sinful. But the people I met were also sweet and weird and endearing. You’d get all of that in one night.
George Saunders, the Art of Fiction No. 245
theparisreview.org
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