How Sam Bankman-Fried Conquered Washington

Happy travel day, everyone; may you have much to be thankful for tomorrow — and stay out of the left lane on Interstate 95 northbound between northern Virginia and the Philadelphia suburbs. 

On the menu today: Two new articles lay out how Sam Bankman-Fried and his firms bought a lot of friends in Washington, and mention his family’s ties to prominent Democrats; a moment of thanks; and an observation about how everyone wants to believe in revolution, instead of accepting the gradual pace of evolution.

If you’re reading this, you likely long ago gave up the sense that political ideology is a useful tool for sorting out the world’s good human beings from the bad ones.