Scattershot Impressions From a Lost Realm

On my ongoing "slow news" experiment and the importance of bearing moral witness despite futility.

I have long promised to write a true “Monday Note,” which as we originally conceived it was meant to be a sort of scattershot of impressions—more natural, conversational, less structured. For reasons that are unclear to me, Damir and I both seem to struggle with this concept. It is almost as if we’re afraid that if we leave thoughts and ideas unformed, …