Enticing read there Sorta, enjoyed the play by play critical analysis. Serious subject matter encourages a careful reading.
One final thought. This column is one of the best manifestations of a writing move I’ve seen before, but have no name for. Lacking something better, I’ll call it the “embodiment trope.” I may have first seen it in the poetry of Walt Whitman, where he could identify in his own body the contradictions of America.