Landmarkings #6.2

Annotations on how we make sense of the world and tell its stories.

How quickly the news moves.

Since I sent out yesterday’s letter, events of the past week in Afghanistan are already being overtaken. A bombing in Kabul airport that killed at least thirteen U.S. service members and more than a hundred Afghans was claimed to have been committed by a local offshoot of ISIS. Graeme Wood writes here about how the U.S., the …