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In our house, the usual nighttime routine involves me lying down with each of our two younger kids — Lucas is six, Nora is three — praying with them, then talking with them about what’s on their minds. In the immediate aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, the kids were really, really worried about the Haitians.…

So says David Brooks, in a smart observation: The plume taps into a series of deep anxieties. First, it taps into the anxiety that the people running our major institutions are just not that competent. Second, it feeds into the anxiety that there has been an unhappy marriage between corporations and government officials, which has…

Photographed by my wife while motoring through the streets of Philadelphia. I can only imagine what the owner of the small business fronting this sign must have gone through before he lost his cool:
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