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A global world puts unprecedented pressure on our personal conduct and morality.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
David Perell • What the Hell Is Going On?
Progressive education reform has accomplished many things. It has made school a lot more pleasant, and a lot more interesting. But it’s also brought with it costs for us as individuals and as citizens. Memory is how we transmit virtues and values, and partake of a shared culture.
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Jia Tolentino on the Internet’s Endless Stage | Crooked Media
crooked.comEzra Klein • Opinion | We Know Shockingly Little About What Makes Humanity Prosper
In 1999 Thomas Friedman published The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. It was Das Kapital for Smart America. In Friedman’s account, globalization is the organizing system of the post–Cold War era, but, unlike the Cold War, it is the result of technological advances and blind economic forces, not government policies. Rejecting
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By 2010 Obamacare had become a dirty word, and the most radical Republicans won their elections and took over the House with a promise to repeal it. What the Obama administration missed was the opportunity to argue on the basis of the same moral ideals of freedom and life. Serious illness without health care takes away your liberty and threatens yo
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