What's striking about capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social progress, no commitment to improving human welfare or ecology. All we get is the chaos of profit-oriented production and accumulation as the world burns around us.

this week’s BASKETBALL FEELINGS is about softness: how it’s not passive and how contemporary powers, threatened by softness, are working to crush it harder than ever. also, the elements of softness in basketball — gaps and glimpses in the game that, admittedly, i love most