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What does the rise of Donald Trump signify? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news? Why is liberal democracy in crisis? Is God back? Is a new world war coming?
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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
A conservative Harvard professor critiques the university's failure to foster debate and its silencing of conservative voices.
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One thing that makes Kit conspicuous is this. He's one of the few Harvard professors known to be conservative, to vote Republican.
I voted for President Trump the first time because I needed him to end the war in Afghanistan, and he promised to do that. I didn't think I was going to have any peace in my own life until that war,
... See more“Trump is a creature native to our own style of government and therefore much more difficult to protect ourselves against,” the Yale political theorist Bryan Garsten wrote. “He is a demagogue, a popular leader who feeds on the hatred of elites that grows naturally in democratic soil.” A demagogue can become a tyrant, but it’s the people who put him
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