Bethany, Beatrix, and Patrick
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn, NY
Both of their names are misspelled: we spell our name Barocas, not Barokas, and my grandmother’s name was Flora Gatteño (or Gattegno, it’s not quite clear).
New York City, 1916
Fired up a /now page: zachbarocas.com/now
Manhattan, NYC
New York City
New York City
“Wonder is the beginning of awe. Awe is the beginning of wisdom.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn NY, 2017
Brooklyn, NY
Rivka Galchen on Raymond Carver’s “Elephant” | The New Yorker
Reminds me what a strange and beautiful story “Elephant” is, how powerful Carver’s late work is (e.g. “Errand,” and “Cathedral”). I’ll have to go back and read those stories again.
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn, NY
Out of the oppressed worker, neoliberalism creates the free entrepreneur, the entrepreneur of the self. Today, everyone is a self-exploiting worker in his own enterprise. Everyone is both master and slave. The class struggle has been transformed into an internal struggle against oneself. Those who fail blame themselves and feel ashamed. People see themselves, rather than society, as the problem.
Self-Exploiting Workers | A Working Library
Had Rush Limbaugh died during George W. Bush’s presidency, would Dick Cheney have hosted the radio host’s call-in show?
A Government of All the Podcasters | The Atlantic
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Manhattan, NYC
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban nights are like the night there. I have looked down across the city from high windows. It is then that the great buildings lose reality and take on their magical powers. They are immaterial; that is to say, one sees but the lighted windows. Squares after squares of flame, set and cut into the Aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
Ezra Pound, “Patria Mia”
Brooklyn, NY
Ezra Klein: Why American Jews No Longer Understand Each Other
Ezra Klein: Why American Jews No Longer Understand Each Other
Manhattan, NYC
Manhattan, NYC
Brooklyn, NY