congress
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On hubris, politics, and so much collective dread about this coming November.
Each of us is special, but we shouldn’t give in to the hubris of imagining that no one else could do our work.
45, Biden, congress, Democratic presidential candidate, Donald Trump, election, Joe Biden, Joseph Biden, Kamala Harris, opposition party, politics, presidency, President, presidential candidate, presidential election, RBG, Republican party, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senate, Supreme Court, Supreme Court justice, Trump -
On the Tower of Babel and beneficial curses.
Kind-hearted citizens of the United States needed to be saved from our own complacency.
45, Abdelfattah Kilito, attorney general, Avigdor Shinan, Babel, Babylon, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Bible, climate change, climate destabilization, complacency, congress, cooperation, Cugel the Clever, curse, democrat, Democratic Party, diversity, Donald Trump, education, Elif Batuman, English, Eyes of the Overworld, From Gods to God, Gate of the Gods, Gateway to Heaven, global warming, God, God’s Gate, health care, health care reform, Heisenberg, Ismael, Jack Vance, language, linguistics, mass incarceration, monoculture, Old Testament, personal responbility, perspective, politics, PotUS, President, Quran, republican, Robyn Creswell, sentencing reform, tax code, tax cut, Thai, The Idiot, The Tongue of Adam, tongue, Tower of Babel, Trump, Turkish, uncertainty principle, Valerie Zakovitch, Whorf hypothesis, Yahweh, Yair Zakovitch

