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The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
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the traditionalists who “resisted the cultural changes set into motion during the sixties” and “identified with the normative Americanism of the 1950s” seemed to have lost the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
undesirable aspects of our shared culture as well. The ambient and all-pervasive hunger for ever-more-fleeting relevance; the disposability with which we treat people who mess up;
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The narrative of Free America shaped the parameters of acceptable thinking for Smart America. Free trade, deregulation, economic concentration, and balanced budgets became the policy of the Democratic Party. Culturally it was cosmopolitan, embracing multiculturalism at home and welcoming an increasingly globalized world. Its donor class on Wall Str
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Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy
The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling - by Megan Phelps-Roper
Cha’s use of the period is so aggressive it flattens her voice into a hard robotic drill. These stippling bullet points interrupt us from actually immersing ourselves in the story. If Cha is the driver, she is braking, and braking, the prose jerking forward and stopping, jerking forward and stopping. I find her style, while not exactly pleasurable,
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