Author: Jim

What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly?

And what is it not?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/opinion/christian-nationalism.html?smid=em-share

China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball

Do we really want America to become a backwater of bloated, expensive, gas-guzzling cars?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/opinion/gm-ford-electric-vehicles.html?smid=em-share

Why People Fail to Notice Horrors Around Them

Humans are hard-wired to adjust to changing circumstances. And that’s why terrible changes can occur slowly without much protest.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/opinion/brain-habituation-horrors.html?smid=em-share

Beware giving Big Tech a constitutional right to avoid regulation.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/social-media-netchoice-texas-supreme-court/677494/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

What the News and the Pews Have in Common

How the internet is making everything nondenominational.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opinion/religion-internet.html?smid=em-share

The Political Failure of Bidenomics

The divide between classes can’t be healed with economic remedies alone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/opinion/bidenomics-working-class.html?smid=em-share