Introduction

In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk passive aggression, teenage misery, jazz flute comebacks, and wartime prayers. Also, Sarah celebrates Wally Moon day while Dave declares the worst of the meats.

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• Click here to read Josh Cohen's essay on Passive Aggression in 1843 Magazine.
• Click here to read Zadie Smith's piece, The Fall of My Teen-Age Self in The New Yorker.
• Click here to read Blake Nail's Mbird article on "André 3000’s Flute in the Midst of Loudness".
• Click here to read the interview with Phil Klay in the NY Times Magazine, "Finding a Moral Center in this Era of War."