New and Old #32

Friday roundup and commentary

Dance Till We Die, The New Atlantis, Ari Schulman, Summer 2021

I happen to have an essay in The New Atlantis myself, in the fall issue, which just went un-paywalled. Take a look, but I’ll be doing a follow-up post on it here too. But this piece by Schulman is fantastic. It doesn’t fit in the COVID hawk vs. COVID dove, partisan, culture war debate we’ve b…