"Things Used to Work in This Country"

 The New Atlantis: Taking a hard look at new appliances.

On My List

 

"Gen Z Has Had Enough Therapy"

 The American Spectator: Autumn Mackenzie reviews Abigail Shrier's new book.

History Is Always With Us

Commentary magazine: Meir Y. Soloveichik on "Patton's Poem and the Jews." 

More from The Golden State

 

How to Write a Comic Novel

 

Revenge

 "The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like that."

- Marcus Aurelius

Yogi

 "An amazing bad-ball hitter, [Yogi] Berra was skilled at reaching for balls out of the strike zone and hitting them out of the park. Yet for all his aggressiveness at the plate, he rarely struck out - only 12 times in 597 at-bats in 1950."

- From The New York Yankees of the 1950s: Mantle, Stengel, Berra, and a Decade of Dominance by David Fischer

Sound Career Advice

Just go to a state school. The premium you're paying for elite private colleges vs. the better public schools is for social clout and not the quality of the education. And that's worth a lot less now that people have figured out that elite higher ed is cringe.

- Nate Silver

Painful