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I wrote the cover story for this month’s Harper’s (@harpers). It begins,
“My mother lost both of her legs on the way to the Barbican Art Gallery. It was her day off, and she was going there to see an exhibition called Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art.” https://t.co/iRAiY4cGDb
Redundancy provides insurance against loss. The American chestnut largely disappeared from the forests of the northeastern United States, but other species filled its niche. In 2004, though, when Chiron, one of only two companies providing flu vaccines in the US, announced that its plants in Liverpool were contaminated, our house of cards was at re
... See moreJessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
From Anxiety to Animosity: How Social Media Damages Relationships
A preview of Nicholas Carr’s new book Superbloom
Nicholas Carr
Feb 03, 2025
Introduction from Jon Haidt:
There’s a story I often tell to explain how we got into this mess––how we let a few tech companies take over childhood, making it passive, solitary, and monetizable. The story begins i
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There are no better examples than Harvard University and the New York Times , whose choices so often set the tone for other elite universities and publications. Both institutions may have declined in their overall control over American life, but they have remained culturally influential and economically viable by pandering to the tastes of a small ... See more
The Illiberalism in Our Institutions
Analyst or Moralist?
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