Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.
Month: May 2024
*** Harvard’s Golden Silence
The university will no longer make statements about political matters. Other schools should follow suit.
***** Americans Are Thinking About Immigration All Wrong
Population growth, economic growth, and income growth can be mutually reinforcing.
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.
****** [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.
********** 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.
NYTimes.com: The Gender Gap Is Now a Gender Gulf
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
The Gender Gap Is Now a Gender Gulf
The consequences for America’s political future are enormous — and a little unpredictable.
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health – Illich
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health
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