Pluralistic societies can work. If we let them.

Took a break from writing about Marx to walk to the pharmacy in Windsor Terrace, owned by a South Asian family, that never seems to run into supply-chain issues or whatever it is that prevents other pharmacies from having medications when you need them. On the way there and back, I crossed paths with two Orthodox Jews, reading and reciting to each other in Hebrew, as they go to or from shul for Shavuot; a trio of South Asian teenage boys, calling each other “girl” in the informal way that, six months ago, they’d have been calling each other “bro” or “brah”; a chic woman in fancy biking gear, sitting on a bench, speaking Haitian Creole on the phone; two […]