A few links!  Just for you all.

The “gentrification font”: Neutraface.

A very dense, a very rich, piece about aesthetics, politics, and faith.  Highly recommended.

A fascinating worry: what if we have short-changed our younger adults to such a degree that they cannot buy houses we expect them to buy?  This report is about a study that suggests that, both for reasons of generational lack of wealth on the part of Millennials, and for reasons of changing geographic demographics, many middle-aged and older people are sitting on houses that they will never be able to sell, either because no one will have the money to buy them, or because no one will want to live where the houses are.  This is another example of the way that America has damaged its unspoken contract between the generations, to allow each new generation opportunities that the ones before it did not possess. In this case, Boomers who did not care to ensure that future generations would be financially secure will unfortunately realize that they too count on the financial power of future generations—that part of their retirement, part of their lives, was premised on the idea that there would be a future of prosperity for all.  It turns out the future matters pretty directly to all of us.  Oh the ironies.

A “bioethicist” has an argument for how to make America better: drug people to make them better!  He calls it “moral enhancement.” He recognizes there is no science that can produce these enhancements, and he skirts the morality of them, but at least he got a small op-ed out of it, I guess.  

Along with a corruption inquiry, I also hope there is a bipartisan commission on the US pandemic response, that should take years, have public hearings, and will be devastating for the GOP.

A small, good piece for Charlie Parker in his centennial year.  

This is absolutely correct: 

The American right and left have never been mirror images of each other. They’re different sorts of coalitions, with different histories and strategies.

And in the Trump era, a specific kind of misinformation on social media is a central tactic of the right.…two people close to the Facebook fact-checking process told me, the vast bulk of the posts getting tagged for being fully or partly false come from the right. That’s not bias. It’s because sites like The Gateway Pundit are full of falsehoods, and because the president says false things a lot. 

Ben Smith on the GOP’s massive anti-reality campaign against the media.  

Where the name “Jim Crow” comes from.

Be safe, everybody--