Welcome to the weekend,
The best of the Internet:
What is public education for? George Packer’s examination of how pandemic-era politics is derailing American education is a can’t miss essay on the state of U.S. domestic affairs.
Hold that parking spot!
Salvador Dalí illustrates Montaigne. I found “That Philosophy Is Learning to Die”, quite compelling. How unexpected that the Pale Horse and rider are rendered more lively than the pondering person.
“Live Not by Lies.”
Simon Sarris contemplates the commoditization of, well, everything in American life; beauty, space, time. What might our cities and shares spaces, our houses, look like if we sought to create, rather than simply produce?
Currently reading: On Photography by Susan Sontag
Have a lovely weekend.
Image: “Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pines,” Hendrik Voogd, 1807.
