That effort can be seen in the role played by one of the most overlooked yet powerful forces in 20th-century America: the nation’s realtors.
Rather, conservative activists and business leaders designed an opposite idea of American freedom to protect their own interests. The conservative use of the idea of absolute freedom, of freedom as your personal property, to shift American politics to the right came shortly after King’s speech, and indeed was a direct reaction to his argument that one’s own freedom depended on everyone else’s. used the word equality once at the March on Washington, but he used the word freedom 20 times. In the early 1960s, civil-rights activists invoked freedom as the purpose of their struggle. They routinely refer to themselves as “ freedom-loving Americans.” Freedom, as a cause, today belongs almost entirely to the right. The Atlantic The Inventors of America’s Most Dangerous IdeaĬonservatives in America have, in recent months, used the idea of freedom to argue against wearing masks, oppose vaccine mandates, and justify storming the Capitol.For instance, on Monday, the United States will start restricting travel from Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, and Malawi. Several nations are now selectively shutting down travel to impede further spread. South Africa, the country that initially flagged Omicron to WHO this week, has experienced a surge of new cases-some reportedly in people who were previously infected or vaccinated-and the virus has already spilled across international borders into places such as Hong Kong, Belgium, Israel, and the United Kingdom. Omicron, also known as B.1.1.529, was first detected in Botswana and South Africa earlier this month, and very little is known about it so far. Mohd Rasfan / AFP / Getty We Know Almost Nothing About the Omicron VariantĪs fall dips into winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the coronavirus has served up the holiday gift that no one, absolutely no one, asked for: a new variant of concern, dubbed Omicron by the World Health Organization on Friday.That enables car companies to deflect attention from their decisions to add heft and height to the SUVs and trucks that make up an ever-larger portion of vehicle sales, and it allows traffic engineers to escape scrutiny for dangerous street designs. Blaming the bad decisions of road users implies that nobody else could have prevented them. American transportation departments, law-enforcement agencies, and news outlets frequently maintain that most crashes-indeed, 94 percent of them, according to the most widely circulated statistic-are solely due to human error. That downward trend is no accident: European regulators have pushed carmakers to build vehicles that are safer for pedestrians and cyclists, and governments regularly adjust road designs after a crash to reduce the likelihood of recurrence.īut in the United States, the responsibility for road safety largely falls on the individual sitting behind the wheel, or riding a bike, or crossing the street. In the European Union, whose population is one-third larger than America’s, traffic deaths dropped by 36 percent between 20, to 18,800. road fatalities have risen by more than 10 percent over the past decade, even as they have fallen across most of the developed world. More than 20,000 people died on American roadways from January to June, the highest total for the first half of any year since 2006.
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Update from the reader, Eric Beltmann, who adds: And yet that embroidery feels seamless, mostly because it extends Wilco’s persistent sense of play, but also because it gets at how so much of rock, soul, and poetry have common roots in gospel music. It’s a full-bodied conversion, made even weirder when, two minutes in, the band momentarily switches gears to include a snippet of lyrics taken from “Theologians,” a mid-tempo Wilco song that’s closer to Emily Dickinson than American soul. Wilco’s “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” is a noisy, distressing indie-rock classic, but in the hands of fellow Chicagoans JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, it transforms into an exuberant Motown-style pop song.
I’m dancing in my seat to this reader’s pick: