Keeping up with the news can feel endlessly busy in a world that urges us (in ways both subtle and overt) to endlessly busy ourselves. For this week’s reader essay, reader Allison Rowe offers a different perspective, writing in praise of boredom, which she calls "the rich soil in which new ideas can take root." Her piece is beautiful and direct, and she is — amazingly — the second Vermont high schooler who has had an essay published in Tangle. You can read Allison’s full piece here.
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Reader review.
In this section, we like to highlight reader comments that respond to our coverage from different angles. In our issue about Biden's fitness and health during and after his presidency, two readers responded to our coverage in different ways.
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