Owning a Car Is a Financial Decision

Against abstracting real issues into the culture war

Yesterday I wrote a long-ish piece here about the way we talk about cities and urban issues, and how turning this stuff into a culture war is basically barking up the wrong tree, sort of a logical fallacy. It’s the wrong frame/lens/etc., and it obscures the fact that we’re ultimately talking about real, hard, practical issues that impact real people. In…