Jonah Wolff

“Perpetually on-the-go New Jerseyans are a highly declarative people who speak very clearly, and with our hands.”
― Kal Penn, You Can’t Be Serious

“The headlines on a few recent U.S. opinion surveys were basically 'These Crazy Kids Love Socialism,' but my takeaway from the data is that younger people tend to be more ideologically nonbinary. A survey of people under thirty by Harvard's Kennedy School of Government found that majorities said they 'don't support' capitalism or socialism, with small fractions who 'identify as' either socialist (16 percent) or capitalist (19 percent).”
― Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

“Kleptocracy and autocracy go hand in hand, reinforcing each other but also undermining any other institutions that they touch. The real estate agents who don't ask too many questions in Sussex or Hampshire, the factory owners eager to unload failing businesses in Warren, the bankers in Sioux Falls happy to accept mystery deposits from mystery clients—all of them help undermine the rule of law in their own countries and around the world.”
― Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

“Ethnobotanists know that the more names a plant has, the greater its cultural importance.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World