In the grand tradition of The Atlantic, every issue must have at least one ridiculous story.
I love The Atlantic for its high-quality writing and often fascinating essays, and I hate The Atlantic for its insistence that it is not striving to be a highbrow (upper-middlebrow?) publication aimed at the overeducated.
A great example of the ridiculous is this piece.
If gentrification has a sound, it’s silence. Xochitl Gonzalez on why the rich love quiet so much, and what it means for everyone else: https://t.co/MeC8hnoMmg pic.twitter.com/FvRWl3AXiN
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) June 14, 2024
It turns out, according to The Atlantic’s staff writer focused on Brooklyn, that wanting a bit of peace and quiet is motivated by the desire to oppress people of color, who know better how to live.
My first thought, of course, was that perhaps the correlation between wealth and quiet is something…
