Helen

“That the French Revolution was essentially a religious phenomenon was only seen with clarity by Joseph de Maistre and Jules Michelet.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“I AM THAT FIREFLY
EVEN AFTER DEATH
IMPARTS LIGHT TO YOU”
― UJJAL HALDER, KINDLED ROOTS: love poetry

“life expectancy among working-class white Americans had been decreasing since the early 2000s. In modern history the only obvious parallel was with Russia in the desperate aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union. One journalistic essay and academic research paper after another confirmed the disaster, until the narrative was capped in 2015 by Anne Case and Angus Deaton’s famous account of “deaths of despair.”
― Adam Tooze, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

“And the space created by capital is a very seductive space indeed— provided you have the money.”
― Alessandro Busà, The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite