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The rhetoric of flexibility, in other words, despite its existential promise to make us more human, frequently undergirds policies that make the lives of workers more precarious. And it’s far from clear that all workers welcome the liberation from routine work. In many cases, people are left structuring each day from scratch, becoming responsible for a host of decisions that were once codified into the rhythms of the workplace.
Routine Maintenance, by Meghan O’Gieblyn
harpers.org
Hill stopped speaking in code: “You got thugging in the hood for Black people, and you got redneck records for white people.” That was just natural, a matter of water flowing downward—why fight gravity? “Your diversity is the radio dial, from 88 to 108. There’s your fucking diversity.”
Country Music’s Culture Wars and the Remaking of Nashville | The New Yorker
Emily Nussbaum
The narrative of Real America is white Christian nationalism.
George Packer
theatlantic.com
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