Another Brick in the Wall

"Every institution’s unstated first goal is to survive and grow, not to undertake the mission it has nominally staked out for itself" ~ John Taylor Gatto

I just know that I am going to love a newsletter with the title “Some Unpleasant Arithmetic”.

The title of Argentinian economist (yes, there are apparently such creatures) Maia Mindel’s Substack offering contains so much wisdom in and of itself that I may have to dedicate the rest of this Pitchfork Paper to eulogizing and riffing off it. I think I will. …