Sometimes people ask me "what are you working on these days?" and "trying to write about the idea of America as millenarian cult" always feels sort of embarrassing or excessively goth
@lifewinning uh the puritans were goth af
@lifewinning That's why I settled on "The Best of All Possible Worlds". If you're going to punch someone in the face with a brick, wrap it in a towel.
@lifewinning Rick Perlstein never struck me as all that goth.
@lifewinning THAT IS BEAUTIFUL