harper Reed

“Keep it simple. Rhyming’s good (“For Jimmy and me, vote ‘yes’ on 3”). Never explain anything. “The more you have to explain,” Whitaker said, “the more difficult it is to win support.” Say the same thing over and over again. “We assume we have to get a voter’s attention seven times to make a sale,” Whitaker said. Subtlety is your enemy. “Words that lean on the mind are no good,” according to Baxter. “They must dent it.” Simplify, simplify, simplify. “A wall goes up,” Whitaker warned, “when you try to make Mr. and Mrs. Average American Citizen work or think.”85”
― Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

“ПOΛHAЯПYOTOTA—”
― Alan Furst, Night Soldiers

“we should accept that China will be a global tech power in the future and start managing the risk now, rather than pretending the west can sit out China’s technological rise.”
― Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

“the English writer G. K. Chesterton wondered what the big boats foretold of a nation’s fabric. “The poor man really has a stake in the country,” he wrote. “The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht.”
― Evan Osnos, The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich