Political Brief: Midterms and Afghanistan

Plus: Voting rights & JD Vance

Dear Friends,

From T.S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton”:

Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness.
Not the stillness of the violin, while the note las…