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While Mr. Goldhaber said he wanted to remain hopeful, he was deeply concerned about whether the attention economy and a healthy democracy can coexist. Nuanced policy discussions, he said, will almost certainly get simplified into “meaningless slogans” in order to travel farther online, and politicians will continue to stake out more extreme positio... See more
nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
A writer could blast out her opinions, but writers are at their best not when they tell people what to think but when they provide a context within which others can think.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones
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Let’s expand the concept of “elite”in the way that Hughes meant it, not as the condescension of class but as the elevation of the mind and the preservation of standards.
Tina Brown • As we enter a period of unmitigated crassness in public life, I find myself guiltily dreaming of frivolity and luxury.
It’s always hard writing your first piece of the year. But with the upcoming inauguration, Luigi Mangione, the ramifications of illegal immigration I see behind my home in New York, the safety of our public transportation system... I know that I am witnessing an avoidable decline. That our political expectations are embarrassingly low. And that we’... See more
Reggie James • Political Expectations
