re: #28 LastYearsMan
I missed the last thread, but I still want to thank Charles for highlighting such a great essay. Coates might be the most powerful essayist today (at least in English).
Seconded. That was a really good essay. The parallels between “white slavery” rhetoric in the 1800s and the Berniebro insistence that only economic issues matter in the 21st century really hit home for me.