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we are all socialists in our private lives

"We Are All Socialists in Our Private Lives"

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Rather, it’s that you cannot just conjure stable and rewarding romantic commitments on command

The Return of the Marriage Plot

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Later, when the old woman is taken from the building by paramedics—off to a nursing home so that her younger relatives can sell the apartment—it is Tár who becomes the very picture of human abjection,

The Instrumentalist | Zadie Smith

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redirecting some of our energy toward building “excellent dumb cities.”

The case for ... making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones

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