Our mind control drugs begin to work on Ta-Nehisi Coates. And Marvin Gaye.
Incidentally, Ta-Nehisi and his partner, Kenyatta, are spectacularly awesome people, just as I suspected they would be. Meeting them was the highlight of a pretty neat festival.
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Megan McArdle is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a former senior editor at The Atlantic. Her new book is The Up Side of Down.