I was listening to this on NPR this morning and it really got my cortisol levels up. I’m not even trying to plug for Platner; maybe he’ll Fetterman us. But billionaire captive NPR continues to be disappointing.
*For clarity, this is a wall of shame post. An example NPR serving the interests of billionaires, and in no way an article I support or endorse.
I keep thinking that if we could time travel someone from the final days of Babylon or Dynastic Egypt or Athens or Imperial Rome to the US of today and somehow give them a crash course in the language and technology, they’d look around and say, “Oh yeah - I recognize this.”