Doesn't the T get a lot of money already? It feels the same as Boston's school bus system, which gets enough that we could pay for all its riders to get taxi rides instead but can't be trusted to even show up at each stop each day.

I feel like the state needs some dedicated office of audits and budgeting that goes in each year to work with departments to find where the money's going and how much its goals will cost. Also, outline priorities so maybe it will top wasting money making one of the cheapest subway systems in the world free when it claims to be in dire need of funds to make itself usable (unless it's literally paying me for my time, I'm not waiting half an hour for a piss-soaked Orange Line train I can out-walk no matter how cheap it is).

Or drew whales as monsters because it was cool.

It will now be the Beanhole ATV Mot-o-Rama and run by the Moshichists behind that billboard over the BU Bridge rotary.

The Kollel is having its thirtieth birthday party this Sunday and Gateways its hundredth bar mitzvah Saturday.

And, of course, a lot of monsters were voracious readers. Stalin was particularly famous for his library and throughput.

That said, the three people in question weren't exactly proclaiming other avenues of high-quality thought, but we both know how differently people react to anything openly castigating the young women who take pride in consuming social media or YA instead of literary or analytical works.

Basically, he's writing how books are the only worthwhile form of the humanities in a respected journal of thought with a strong history of literary, philosophical, and analytical output.

The second part is that he seems oddly hostile toward the idea that altruism should be judged by what it does for the world, which may be because it very much discounts the benefit of a monastic lifestyle of self-sacrifice, which is how academics often see themselves.

More noting an interesting implication in the premise and an oddly vitriolic aside about something basically everyone else would say is harmless at worst.

I will say that it's deeply ironic for this argument that books are the reading format of record taking the form of an essay in The Atlantic Monthly, although to say that would be an admission that I should probably subscribe to Ploughshares like I've been planning to for several years (they had just finished selling a bundle with several other journals I'm interested in when I last checked and haven't had another these last few years).

There's also remarkable vitriol for effective altruism buried in the later part of the essay, which I somewhat suspect is due to his identifying his low-paid career providing privileged young adults with lessons in recreation as his main form of altruism.

75% escaped, and it's interesting that you present the non-Jewish Frenchmen as more French and important.

Which conveniently takes credit for Algerian resistance.

Intentionally? I've similarly heard that Austrian incompetence saved a lot of Jews.

Better than the popular solution of some random exurb precisely halfway between two spokes of the T.

I has been some time since Boston had a kosher deli.

If you want "nontraditional," how about a free pair of bluejeans from Facebook Marketplace?

Capitalism turned me into a newt!

Appropriate, yes, unless you have different standards than mainstream publishing's (not uncommon, given that it usually sticks to superficial features). Worth the time it takes to read, probably not, based on series reputation.

It's always interesting to see how r/books puts bildung's value on reading but refuses Its standards of reading.

"YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!"

I always wear one to kabbalas shabbos.

Eh, nuclear still has the local pollution issue you see with heavy metals... and natural gas. We're still paying the Navajo reparations for our current supply.

It's because the environmentalist left only stopped seeing science and technology as the military industrial complex in the 1980's.

It's adult-proof if you're opening it properly, but not as secure as promised if you're getting creative in how to get it open. There's a Burn Notice quip about how a lot of very secure doors are in walls that you can punch through, but my reference is that I find it difficult to open a pill bottle my dog bit the cap off of this morning (why she likes chewing those caps I have no idea).

Why shouldn't we have a healthcare system like France and Germany, generally rated as the best in the world, and Israel, generally rated as tge most cost-effective?