Longreads Best of 2012: Maria Bustillos
Maria Bustillos is a Los Angeles-based writer whose work for The Awl and Los Angeles Review of Books was featured on Longreads this year.
玛丽亚·布斯蒂洛斯 (Maria Bustilos) 是一位洛杉矶作家，她为 The Awl 和《洛杉矶书评》撰写的作品今年在 Longreads 上得到了专题报道。
In the essay “Freedom Is Overrated,” the theologian and scholar Sancrucensis contrasts the humanism of Jonathan Franzen with that of David Foster Wallace.
在《自由被高估》一文中，神学家兼学者桑克鲁森西斯将乔纳森·弗兰岑的人文主义与大卫·福斯特·华莱士的人文主义进行了对比。
A transcendentally beautiful and heartbreaking meditation on self and other.
对自我和他人的超然美丽和令人心碎的冥想。
I’ve enjoyed a number of essays from The American Conservative this year, but my favorite may have been Mike Lofgren’s “Revolt Of The Rich”.
今年我很喜欢《美国保守党》的许多文章，但我最喜欢的可能是迈克·洛夫格伦的《富人的反抗》。
It’s a blistering reproof of our moneyed classes and their disconnect from the historic aspirations of our country.
这是对我们富裕阶级及其与我们国家历史愿望脱节的严厉谴责。
The tagline of Andrew Sullivan’s blog, The Daily Dish, is “Biased and Balanced.” An earlier incarnation of the Dish bore another, equally good: “Of No Party Or Clique.” I consider Sullivan an indispensable companion, not least because his views so often diverge from my own.
安德鲁·沙利文 (Andrew Sullivan) 博客《每日菜肴》(The Daily Dish) 的口号是“有偏见且平衡”。这道菜的早期版本还有另一个同样好的版本：“不属于任何党派或派系”。我认为沙利文是一个不可或缺的伴侣，尤其是因为他的观点常常与我的观点不同。
I can’t choose just one entry from his heady, rapid-fire mix of opinion, reporting, photographs, jokes, poems, ideas.
我无法从他令人陶醉、连珠炮般的观点、报道、照片、笑话、诗歌和想法中只选择一篇文章。
But Sullivan’s great heart, his compassion and intellect, are a salutary test of my own convictions most every day.
但沙利文的伟大胸怀、他的同情心和智慧，每天都是对我自己信念的有益考验。
The scholar Aaron Bady exposes the fatal weaknesses in the arguments of those promoting “massive open online courses,” or MOOCs, in a resoundingly persuasive and passionate essay in Inside Higher Ed.
学者亚伦·巴迪 (Aaron Bady) 在《高等教育内部》(Inside High Ed) 上发表了一篇极具说服力且充满激情的文章，揭露了那些提倡“大规模开放在线课程”(MOOC) 的论点中的致命弱点。
Absolutely crucial reading for anyone remotely interested in the academy.
对于任何对学院有一点兴趣的人来说绝对是重要的读物。
Mike Konczal, known on Twitter as @rortybomb, led a breathtaking debate on debt relief at the Boston Review that blew my wiglet sky-high.
迈克·康察尔（Mike Konczal）在推特上被称为@rortybomb，他在《波士顿评论》上引发了一场关于债务减免的激动人心的辩论，这让我大吃一惊。
In the lead essay, Konczal makes an ironclad case that a strong social safety net, including debt relief, is crucial to the economic health of the country.
在主要文章中，康查尔提出了一个铁证如山的论据，即包括债务减免在内的强大的社会安全网对于国家的经济健康至关重要。
Splendid, limpidly clear, beautifully reasoned.
精彩，清晰，逻辑清晰。
It’s scarcely too much to say that The New Yorker’s Amy Davidson single-handedly rescued my sanity from the maelstrom of this year’s election.
毫不夸张地说，《纽约客》的艾米·戴维森单枪匹马地将我从今年选举的漩涡中拯救了出来。
I pretty much hop on Twitter and start banging out exclamation points every time she posts, but her recent column on the public confrontation of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia by a gay Princeton University student will serve as well as any to demonstrate her unwavering clear-mindedness, her sensitivity, fairness and brilliance.
每次她发帖时，我都会跳上推特，开始打感叹号，但她最近关于一名普林斯顿大学同性恋学生公开对抗最高法院法官安东宁·斯卡利亚的专栏将和任何其他文章一样，展示她坚定不移的清晰思维、她的敏感、公平和才华。
Read more guest picks from Longreads Best of 2012.
阅读 Longreads 2012 年度最佳嘉宾精选。