What Christopher Lasch Got Wrong
These sites harm people’s ability to pay attention as individuals. Then they pump the population’s heads full of grotesque falsehoods, to the point where they can’t distinguish real threats to their existence (an authoritarian leader pledging to shoot them) from nonexistent threats
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Jones’s mistake is one she shares with much of the contemporary Democratic Party. She writes extensively about the need for more government funding to solve every problem imaginable, while disdaining religion and family—the very things that sustain working Americans. A dismissive quip about a family member “colonized” by Fox News epitomizes the eli... See more
Zoning Out - First Things
Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?
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