Ocean Beach: New-Money Surfers Wipe Out Old S.F.It’s a beautiful day at Ocean Beach: head-high peelers; winds offshore; Audi wagons double-parked along the Great Highway, each one driven by a […] ...

This is the same text that the French Jewish thinker (and, yes, Christian mystic) Simone Weil went back to in 1940. Part of the massive exodus of French civilians fleeing south ahead of the German ...