Sublime

less impetus to decide for ourselves what to look for, follow, and, perhaps most important, save.

The most threatening racist movement is not the alt right’s unlikely drive for a White ethnostate but the regular American’s drive for a “race-neutral” one. The construct

No: if anything, the liberal democracies of the West are abandoning the very values that were once known as the Judeo-Christian tradition. The family, the community, the sanctity of human life, the concept of an objective set of moral values, the idea of a covenant linking the present to the past—these are ideals in danger, not reigning orthodoxies

“Enough” is not too little.

At a time when the Victorians prided themselveson science and rationality, the two quiet young men from Buffalo, New York began a confusing debate about just how honest a magician needed to be or could afford to be.

Let’s imagine Nir is wrong, and we all follow his advice anyway—we allow surveillance capitalism to continue getting us “fiendishly hooked,” with only light regulation. Then let’s imagine Tristan is wrong, and we all follow his advice anyway—we regulate the Big Tech companies to stop their invasive practices.