Generations are mostly a fake concept, except when a historic event like WWII actually creates a stark dividing line in lived experience based on age. COVID was one of those events, and yet we're not allowed to change where the line is because of some Salon thinkpiece in 2016.
congrats to PTA but this is clearly a make-up win for Boogie Nights and Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood and The Master and Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread and Licorice Pizza and probably also some of those Haim videos too why not
There has been a lot of interest in and confusion about the British constitution. I am pleased, therefore, to present this simple and not at all tongue-in-cheek guide to understanding the constitutional settlement of 1688.
i find this framing really interesting. you’d never see an article that says ‘I cleaned toilets while studying at London Met’, why is it more newsworthy to have a job at Cambridge? Why are Cambridge students more deserving of a distraction-free education?
It's underappreciated how important the french revolution was; even if it was snuffed out in its time, they were the first to stand up and say "another world is possible."
Without 1792-94, there would be no 1848.
The Mamdani campagin is the result of big cities becoming too costly, places like London, NY, SF, etc are in Fisherian runaway.
Those cities are so desirable they now are selecting for the very people who least need what cities were built to offer.