Kate Cohen
Kate Cohen is an Albany, New York, writer, a former Washington Post columnist, and the author of We of Little Faith. On Substack, she writes a column called Scratch, which celebrates the fight for human agency in a culture awash in cheap consumer goods and A.I. This essay is adapted from Scratch.
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When people say, “Think outside the box,” the box I picture is Bisquick.That’s a popular baking mix, of course, and it’s also what General Mills used to call the biscuits you could make with it.