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The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction
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Serious readers must expand their tastes to the small presses.
#books #reading #hardtimes #badeconomy #bookstodon #publishers
on Sat, 6AM
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Democracies Have an Attention Span Problem
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Illiberalism advances under the West’s click-oriented media cycle.
on Wed, 5PM
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Will Artificial Intelligence Hit a Wall?
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Improvements are slowing and artificial general intelligence remains far off.
on Mon, 10PM
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Once They Were My Captors. Now They Rule Syria
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A personal essay on regime change in Syria.
on Dec 11
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A New Paradigm For Assisted Dying
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The UK bill is a win for decency and dignity—while offering robust safeguards to avoid the mistakes of other countries.
on Dec 2
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Monomania Is Illiberal and Stupefying
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Educational institutions have a duty to oppose monomania and to lead students out of its stultifying embrace.
on Nov 14
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Francis Fukuyama explains how to actually make government more efficient.
on Nov 13
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What's Wrong with Liberalism: Theory
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The shift from classical liberalism into "woke" liberalism isn't inevitable–and can be reversed. Francis Fukuyama's latest.
on Nov 10
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It’s Not the Fascism That Should Bother Us
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The debate over Trump's style of politics obscures his profound indecency.
on Nov 1
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Social media influencers are transforming political persuasion faster than regulators can keep up.
on Nov 1
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It's basically free—but at the same time it's hideously expensive. What gives?
on Oct 31
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He proposes to further upend Republican tradition—and liberal democratic norms.
on Oct 31
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Whatever happens in the election, Trump has already done damage enough to the social fabric.
on Oct 19
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How Pseudo-Intellectualism Ruined Journalism
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A dose of working-class realism can save journalism from groupthink.
on Oct 6
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Happy Birthday To... The First Reaganite?
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Jimmy Carter, who turns 100 today, started many of the policies that came to be associated with the Reagan Revolution.
on Oct 1
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The UN’s annual climate change conferences refuse to get real. Here’s what a more honest conversation would look like.
on Oct 1
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The Mexican State is Being Vandalized
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Hollowing out courts while playing footsie with the cartels, Mexico’s President AMLO is leaving office, but not power.
on Sep 16
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Reflections on Right-Wing Cancel Culture
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Justifying censoriousness because “the left started it” is dumb. It’s also untrue.
on Sep 9
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Yes, You Do Have to Tolerate the Intolerant
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It has become fashionable to invoke Karl Popper’s “paradox of tolerance” to justify restrictions on free speech. That’s just plain wrong.
on Aug 16
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Contrary to popular critiques, the liberal value of equality doesn’t make you weak or nihilistic.
on Aug 15
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What you need to know about a country trying to claw itself back from chaos.
on Aug 9
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Empty Credentialism is Hurting Medicine
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By over-emphasizing papers and grants, elite teaching hospitals forget what medicine should actually be about.
on Aug 8
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Why You Should Feel Good About Liberalism
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We need to get better at standing up for the greatest social technology ever devised.
on Aug 7
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The Schedule F proposal would seize the administrative state for right-populist ends.
on Jul 31
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Rob Henderson on Foster Care, Social Class and the New American Elite
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Yascha Mounk and Rob Henderson discuss his journey from poverty to the Ivy League—and how it has shaped his view of America.
on Jul 26
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Kamala Harris is likely to be the nominee. Here's what she needs to do to win.
on Jul 21
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The Biden administration gets it. Local Democrats, not so much.
on Jul 20
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The Republican Party is ascendant but may be more frail than it looks.
on Jul 19
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British Politics Goes Continental
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Labour won big. But the rise of small parties proves we've entered a new era.
on Jul 5
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Presidents Shouldn't Be Above the Law
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Why the Supreme Court's recent ruling granting Trump far-reaching immunity matters.
on Jul 4
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Biden Is No Longer Fit For Office
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And the Democrats’ insistence that we don’t believe our lyin’ eyes is eroding trust.
on Jul 1
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How America Got Into This Omnishambles
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The Democrats have for too long prized polite lies over uncomfortable truths.
on Jun 28
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Making sense of AI’s impact on an entire field of human culture.
on Jun 25
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In Europe, Chaos Is the New Normal
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The European elections are the beginning of the end for Emmanuel Macron.
on Jun 24
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Deep Reading Will Save Your Soul
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Real learning has become impossible in universities. DIY programs offer a better way.
on Jun 23
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Please Stop Imposing American Views about Race on Us
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Looking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens obscures more than it reveals.
on Jun 22
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Israel, Palestine, and the Sub-Rational
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A liberal solution is still a possibility.
on May 31
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Learning To Live In a World Where Trump Is Winning
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It defies all sense. That’s no reason to ignore it.
on May 28
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Dear Media, Stop Taking Students Too Seriously
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Protests are being exploited by journalists looking for clicks.
on May 2
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India’s Election is Eerily Quiet
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Democracy loses out when the winds of change refuse to blow.
on Apr 30
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A Reckoning Is Coming for the Democrats
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What small towns taught me.
on Apr 19
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The Americans Who Long for Caesar
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The new right views strongman rule as the medicine for our times. Here's why they're wrong.
on Apr 13
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My ordeal in Syria showed me how terrorism thrives in war. I see echoes in Gaza today.
on Apr 12
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Alexandra Hudson on Why Civility Matters
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Yascha Mounk and Alexandra Hudson discuss how civility can be a tool for pursuing justice.
on Apr 8
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How to Fight Misinformation Without Censorship
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Taiwan’s approach puts other countries to shame.
on Apr 5