When I went in to teach class, I finally felt that something might happen, that the political system I’d grown up with, which had been showing cracks for so long, might suddenly explode. I don’t know exactly where the feeling came from. Maybe it was the attitude of my grad students: even the most apathetic and apolitical looked tense, anxious. They were obviously searching their smartphones and tablets for any news they could find. At least, they were even more checked out than usual. It may also have been the way the girls in burkas carried themselves. They moved slowly and with new
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