Author: Jim

How to Fix the Crisis of Trust in Higher Education

Start listening to students about what makes college relevant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/opinion/college-enrollment.html?smid=em-share

The justices did not want to throw Trump off the ballot, and so they didn’t.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/supreme-court-trump-v-anderson-fourteenth-amendment-originalism/677636/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYekj1B9glUv-7TwhPk7JP8Y&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Artificial intelligence, data centers and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s aging power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up.

https://wapo.st/3IqeK6P

Applications such as ChatGPT and DALL-E have captured the world’s imagination—but AI companies are focused on something else.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/nvidia-chips-gpu-generative-ai/677664/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYerKY-Uh95KcCwbjw-aR-gc&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

If They Can’t Make a Federal Case Out of Trump …

The Supreme Court may well decide another presidential election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/opinion/trump-trials-supreme-court.html?smid=em-share

The social contract of trust between experts and society is in danger of dissolving. We need to start putting it back together.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/truth-decay-experts-hilary-putnam/677590/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYYx9ZYUfxgowp-AKfs4JQKQ&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

They’ve become a major military player—and maybe a substitute for strategic thinking.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/how-special-ops-became-the-solution-to-everything/618080/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYQu8WHLPNNoPobsQQmclZnM&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Israel Is Falling Into an Abyss

Will exhaustion and despair lead to some kind of resolution for Palestinians and Israelis?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/opinion/israel-gaza-palestinians-hostages.html?smid=em-share