Tag: disease
-
A stratified society does not only rank individuals. It ranks nations, and it treats the ranking as a theory of competence. When a country is perceived as a junior party in geopolitics — poorer, weaker, on the receiving end of aid, advice, and intervention — the people inside it are not addressed as colleagues. They…
-
The Fable Let’s start with a woman named Anna. She’s sixty-two, a retired bookkeeper, living in a modest town. Her apartment faces the main street. From her window, she can see the local hardware store, the shuttered warehouse on the corner, and the gray transformer box that hums with the town’s power supply. Anna drinks…