The Moldy Bread Analogy

A way of thinking about American anti-urbanism

I realize that a lot of the pieces I publish here are fairly long, and I like to mix in shorter pieces with more singular points in between the essay/magazine-style pieces. I like these “analogy” pieces where I try to look at familiar issues differently, and hope other people do to.

One such analogy, for example is bookcases with density. As I put it on …