The phrase “guilty pleasure” has become disproportionally attached to women’s works in a way that serves to diminish them. Young adult novels, such as “Anna and the French Kiss” and “The Selection” series, are frequently l…
…necessary to assess the risk. Which would probably be correct. But follow that path far enough, and a narrow clique of insiders take charge of assessing, taking, and benefitting from risks that imperil us all. In other words, these risks and their upside will be privatized. If that’s bad when the world economy is at stake, and boy, is it, how do we feel when humanity’s future is on the line?
But unlike a daredevil getting a rush from skiing down a forested hill, say, they weren’t just putting themselves on the line. They were chancing it with you and all your loved ones — and maybe Pluto, the Andromeda galaxy, and anyone living out on Hubble’s faintest smudge. You don’t have to be a Lud…