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Dear Reader,President Joe Biden gave a surprisingly competent State of the Union address Tuesday evening, stumbling in predictable ways but hitting popular nationalist notes where he could. He is very old, but the medications were working. Curt Mills assessed the speech in a piece Wednesday, his first in a little while. Mills points out unexpected parallels between Biden and George W. Bush, in addition to the more conventional comparisons to Barack Obama. But one must admit in the end that when it comes to retail politics, Biden is superior to both.

Despite what the president said, the state of the union broadly is not strong. Drug use and deaths of despair in general, and the fentanyl plague in particular, continue to kill tens of thousands. In an essay published on Monday, Katya Sedgwick argues that while we have all paid breathless attention to fatalities in central Europe we have continued to ignore the war at home and the fentanyl soldiers, the casualties of our decaying social fabric.

Initially released to premium subscribers only, Michael Toscano’s meditation on memory in the midst of an ephemeral and mediated mass culture was published online this past week. Citing Ray Bradbury’s modern classic Fahrenheit 451 and Neil Postman’s The Disappearance of Childhood, Toscano argues it will be up to parents to raise children in such a way as to preserve the best achievements of humanity.

Best,

Micah Meadowcroft
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