Tessie McMillan Cottom on dry January shifting “our focus from collective responsibility to individual choice” letting our institutions off the hook: “Our anxiety about how institutions are failing us makes going dry feel empowering, but it does not build power.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/opinion/dry-january-social-media-sober.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare