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Please don't post shallow dismissals. If you don't like an article, there are many others to look at. Posting just to complain like this lowers the quality of the threads, especially because indignation attracts upvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's an essay published in the "Arts & Culture" section of a literary review. It's not "hard news". It's not supposed to be neutral.

I think what the OP takes issue with is not the opinionated nature of the article, it is the fact that the Paris Review (long famed for its rigorous editorial policy) gave space to blatant advertising.

I enjoyed the piece because I love these types of feel good national narratives, but yeah the hypemanship here is hard.