British politics has taken a millenarian turn. A movement without a pet civilisational threat seems pointless.英國政治已經轉向千禧年主義。一個沒有明確文明威脅論調的運動似乎毫無意義。
那些墨守成規的中間派如何能與世界末日和外星入侵論相抗衡呢？
The Atlantic
Factory foremen once made more than computer programmers in America
We thought a lot this year about the economy through the lens of the election: Why were voters so unhappy? Yes, inflation had spiked for a period, but many economic measures seemed positive, like a low unemployment rate.
We ultimately created our own metric — one that measures the status people hold in the economy relative to everyone else, and how that status has changed. One surprising finding: In 1980, front-line production supervisors (essentially factory foremen) made more on average than computer programmers. That’s obviously not true anymore. One of those jobs has evolved in complexity, pay and prestige; the other has been squeezed by automation and globalization. No wonder factory workers might feel unmoored.
We learned this while analyzing census microdata. But we were so startled by the comparison that we went back to the source to check it: The document above is a 1980 census publication showing the average income of production supervisors in the heyday of American manufacturing. — Emily Badger, Robert Gebeloff and Aatish Bhatia
我在20世紀90年代末期曾報道過《華盛頓郵報》。儘管格雷厄姆家族僵化保守、目光狹隘，但該公司一直以來都被認為是一家建立在忠誠之上的堂堂正正 的機構。鮑偉傑可能不是在混亂時期指導新聞編輯的最佳人選，但韋茅斯的換人方式不得不讓人質疑韋茅斯作為經營領導人的成熟度和堅定度。
Dreyfus and Kelly suffer from the usual Cambridge/Berkeley parochialism. They assume that nobody believes in eternal truth anymore. They write as if all of America’s moral quandaries are best expressed by the novelist David Foster Wallace. But they are on to something important when they describe the way — far more than in past ages — sports has risen up to fill a spiritual void.
Spiritually unmoored, many people nonetheless experience intense elevation during the magical moments that sport often affords. Dreyfus and Kelly mention the mood that swept through the crowd at Yankee Stadium when Lou Gehrig delivered his “Luckiest Man Alive” speech, or the mood that swept through Wimbledon as Roger Federer completed one of his greatest matches.
parochial
- pa • ro • chi • al
- 発音
- pəróukiəl
- parochialの慣用句
- parochially, （全1件）
- (of food) heavy, filling, and high in carbohydrates."he loves stodgy puddings"
- dull and uninspired; lacking originality or excitement."some of the material is rather stodgy and top-heavy with facts"
stodgy
- stodg • y
- 発音
- stɑ'dʒi | stɔ'dʒi
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