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A couple of years ago, I asked my Twitter followers for help curating some high-quality, not kitschy, thought-provoking films. It’s a thread that surprised me when it blew up, but perhaps it shouldn’t have: we all know how hard it is to find entertainment that qualifies as art, let alone stands on its artistic merits rather than the soft-core pornography that floats most stuff on Netflix. From that thread, I’ve gathered together my favorite four, each of which is ripe fruit for thought and discussion.

Major League Baseball doesn’t get going until April 7th, but our little league players stepped up to the plate this weekend. Of all the sports kids play in our town, America’s pastime has most successfully remained rooted in the neighborhood.

“Woke” is such a handy catch-all for the various forces making America miserable that it’s easy to forget we’re using our opponent’s term. And it’s a well-chosen one. It implies rejecting complacency in order to question received, official narratives. It implies looking beyond our self-interest to become aware of the suffering of our fellow man. What kind of moral cretin would oppose that?

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We all buy too much junk. Fast fashion, disposable novelties, useless kitchen items. And plastic tubs to store them all in until we summon the will to throw it out. So it makes sense to ask yourself if what you really want is the product in question, or just the dopamine rush of clicking that final button.

Roald Dahl was my first favorite writer; his stories were the first I consciously attributed to a real person doing a job. What hooked me was the sense that he didn’t kid-proof his books. His delightful fantasies of eccentric candy makers, talking worms, and telekinetic schoolgirls had something pleasingly hard-nosed about them.

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A little over a year ago, Mary Harrington wrote in Unherd that modest fashion was having a comeback. In British department stores for middle-class women, high-neck midi dresses and loose-fitting sportswear currently take up the most available shelf space. She explains: “The [traditional] turn in high-street womenswear feels like a mutiny against the long-unchallenged belief that clothing is a vector for self-expression—an idea that usually precedes someone trying to sell you something uncomfortable and expensive.” We can easily detect a similar change in America in woke storefronts like H&M, Old Navy, and the classic department stores, but especially in the explosion of modest boutiques, usually that advertise through social media.

A woman in leggings in a woman armed for battle. This practical yet not unflattering garment allows her to execute a variety of familial (school drop-off without forgetting its “crazy hair day”), professional (coffee with a client), and personal (maybe Pilates later?) missions with efficiency and aplomb. If you were to design a statue commemorating the American Mom circa 2023, the easiest decision would be to outfit her in this athleisure staple.