For newcomers and the nostalgic, some items from the archives:
Academic of pallor denounces “whiteness,” flaps his scented handkerchief.
It’s worth pondering, for instance, what kind of adult might feel a need to signal their virtue, or what they imagine as virtue, habitually, and in such ostentatious ways. I mean, if you’re about as virtuous as you think you ought to be, given whatever circumstances, why would you spend time and effort putting on a show? What kind of person feels compelled to seem virtuous – to pretend to be more pious than they actually are – and to a degree that involves contortions like those above? At risk of sounding ungenerous, I think it’s a telling activity. A warning of sorts.
Atlantic senior editor Honor Jones dislikes crumbs. And so, she got divorced.
Two-year-old boy likes footballs and tractors. Progressive father twitches.
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