A good line by Lauren Oyler, in a Harper’s article about the Goop Cruise:
“A favorite tactic of the self-identified iconoclast is to argue that things that have already happened need, still, to happen.”
I like the placement of “still” and the commas a lot. Is “self-identified” one notch too sneery? Would “would-be” be better? Or even no adjective at all? Maybe the second part of the sentence does enough to establish that the title of iconoclast has not been firmly earned by its claimer.
Published on October 12, 2025 09:16