May 2024 – Echo Chamber 2016

***** People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much

Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/fix-facebook-making-it-more-like-google/620456/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

*** Harvard’s Golden Silence

The university will no longer make statements about political matters. Other schools should follow suit.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/harvard-just-promised-stay-quiet-good-them/678538/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

***** Americans Are Thinking About Immigration All Wrong

Population growth, economic growth, and income growth can be mutually reinforcing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/america-needs-philosophical-reboot-immigration-policy/678535/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

NYTimes.com: How We’ve Lost Our Moorings as a Society rj

How We’ve Lost Our Moorings as a Society

Our society is losing sight of qualities that kept America strong, like responsibility and civility but also the capacity to feel shame.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/opinion/trump-civility-society.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE0.npj_.jfeGOo5Y_e3P&smid=em-share

****** [The Washington Post] The media and sullen nonvoters should listen to Ken Burns

The media and sullen nonvoters should listen to Ken Burns

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/28/ken-burns-graduation-election-trump/

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***** NYTimes.com: Do We Still Understand How Wars Are Won?

Do We Still Understand How Wars Are Won?

Israel and Ukraine don’t have the luxury of fighting fecklessly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/opinion/israel-ukraine-war-us.html?u2g=i&unlocked_article_code=1.v00.PEks.e_ieLKYP7jQn&smid=em-share

********** NYTimes.com: The Gender Gap Is Now a Gender Gulf

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The Gender Gap Is Now a Gender Gulf

The consequences for America’s political future are enormous — and a little unpredictable.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/opinion/gender-gap-biden-trump-2024.html?u2g=i&unlocked_article_code=1.v00.RM6p.3RxX4GEz99yt&smid=em-share

NYTimes.com: The Gender Gap Is Now a Gender Gulf

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The Gender Gap Is Now a Gender Gulf

The consequences for America’s political future are enormous — and a little unpredictable.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/opinion/gender-gap-biden-trump-2024.html?unlocked_article_code=1.v00.RM6p.3RxX4GEz99yt&smid=em-share

Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health – Illich

Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health

https://a.co/d/5sWUubf

NYTimes.com: Try Living in Elon Musk’s Company Town — Illich

Try Living in Elon Musk’s Company Town

To some, Elon Musk has given Brownsville, Texas, a reason for being, a future. To others, he’s a colonizer, flirting with white nationalists online while exploiting a predominantly brown work force.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/opinion/elon-musk-spacex-brownsville-texas.html?smid=em-share