The News

Anxious Machine by Robert McGinley Myers

May 19, 202017:03Society & Culture

I've always had a problematic relationship to the news, and I've struggled to navigate that even more since this pandemic began. I talk to my father about the night I yelled at him over his insufficient fear of the virus...

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