Editors don’t have favorite writers in the same way that parents don’t have favorite children. So I’m not going to say that Ted Johnson’s piece on Memorial Day is my favorite essay we’ve ever run at The Bulwark. But it’s probably the most beautiful, just as a matter of pure writing.
I can already tell that I’m going to come back to this piece many times …
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