New and Old #67

Friday roundup and commentary

The Hotel-Spirit, Slate, Henry Grabar, July 17, 2022

This piece made the social rounds big time, and it’s great. Here’s the key argument:

America once provided a solution to all of these problems—a flexible, variable-term accommodation that welcomed prosperous vacationers, footloose young people, the elderly, and the destitute. I speak, of course, of the …