This is a moving piece by @Harkaway, on his parents' unique, creative partnership. It was a privilege for me to see a little of this myself. Her role in these amazing books deserves to be celebrated.https://t.co/9N4R54AEln
— Richard Ovenden (@richove) March 14, 2021
College admissions is one of the few situations in which it’s rich people scrambling for a scarce resource. The result: our insane system of private schools https://t.co/x3Le5Vm87h
— Arts & Letters Daily (@aldaily) March 14, 2021
… as doers and actors we seek to promote many values of social justice in addition to fairness in the distribution of goods: learning and using satisfying and expansive skills in socially recognized settings; participating in forming and running institutions, and receiving recognition for such participation; playing and communicating with others, and expressing our experience, feelings, and perspective on social life in contexts where others can listen.*
More than twenty years after its original publication in 1990, Iris Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference can be seen to have been prescient …*
That’s the headline on the Independent story. As an Irish citizen rather than a British subject (contrary to popular belief, monarchical states don’t have citizens), I don’t have a dog in this fight. But the interview confirms two things we knew already. One is that the British Royal family is a dysfunctional tribe on an Olympic scale. The other is that British tabloid culture is vicious, racist, and xenophobic to a pathological degree. Poor Meghan is in the same boat as Diana Spencer was in all but one respect: she has been able to persuade her husband to dump the charade before it was too late.*
What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call here and now.
