In a newsletter partly named for this adjective, guest author Simon Bazelon co-coined the term “Secret Congress” for low-key bipartisan dealmaking. This is the first word of a book that praises Ken Saro-Wiwa and Arundhati Roy as “writer-activists” and opens by decrying the “poison-redistribution ethic” of a World Bank memo by Larry Summers. In that 2011 book also titled for the Environmentalism of the Poor, Rob Nixon theorized this kind of Violence. An analogy about “hard boards” from Max Weber’s “Politics as a Vocation” inspired a Substack named for this kind of “Boring” by Vox Media co-founder Matthew Yglesias. After Carlo Petrini protested the first McDonald’s in Rome, he founded a movement named for this kind of “food.” For 10 points, what adjective is paired with “steady” in a proverb derived from Aesop’s “The Tortoise and the Hare”? ■END■
ANSWER: slow [accept Slow Boring; accept Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor; accept Slow Food Movement; accept “slow and steady wins the race”; accept boring until “first” is read] (The full Weber analogy is “Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.”)
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