Yes, "riveting," though too risky for cliche, becomes the very best word I can borrow because of its old origins to "river."
The mighty force of this article runs deep and long and wide across so many thirsty modern fields for irrigation. And in your navigation of such a (nowadays) dangerous subject, you demonstrate the wisdom of the river passed down to your mother by your grandfather.
That's my political response, beneath which lies a thousand hints already accommodated by your "Praise of Privilege."
My personal response is this -- I count it an immeasurable privilege to be friends with you. That fact is both a total accident, for which I will ever cherish having no merit or effort on my part for taking credit, as well as it being exactly what I deserve. And you'll notice and know that I do not speak of this from the modern and whiny ways of entitlement, but rather from the aligning overlap of all of it (DNA, my own family nurturance, society, timing, and Trevor Tunison).
Your combination of handling (so elegantly!) an extremely provocative political area along with the biographical elements of your grandfather, your mother, NYU, and you makes this the very best thing I've so far ever read of yours. Through the lovely cracks of the journalist, the creative non-fiction writer, biographer, story teller came full force to the fore. WOW!
WOW! Adaam. Stunning. Riveting.
Yes, "riveting," though too risky for cliche, becomes the very best word I can borrow because of its old origins to "river."
The mighty force of this article runs deep and long and wide across so many thirsty modern fields for irrigation. And in your navigation of such a (nowadays) dangerous subject, you demonstrate the wisdom of the river passed down to your mother by your grandfather.
That's my political response, beneath which lies a thousand hints already accommodated by your "Praise of Privilege."
My personal response is this -- I count it an immeasurable privilege to be friends with you. That fact is both a total accident, for which I will ever cherish having no merit or effort on my part for taking credit, as well as it being exactly what I deserve. And you'll notice and know that I do not speak of this from the modern and whiny ways of entitlement, but rather from the aligning overlap of all of it (DNA, my own family nurturance, society, timing, and Trevor Tunison).
Your combination of handling (so elegantly!) an extremely provocative political area along with the biographical elements of your grandfather, your mother, NYU, and you makes this the very best thing I've so far ever read of yours. Through the lovely cracks of the journalist, the creative non-fiction writer, biographer, story teller came full force to the fore. WOW!