The Liberal Order Can’t Heal Itself
Our problems run deeper than debates about affordability.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/liberalism-postliberalism-affordability.html?smid=em-share
Author: Jim
******** The Dark Psychology of Social Networks. From 2019
***** Reading Is a Vice
“When literature was considered transgressive, moralists couldn’t get people to stop buying and reading dangerous books,” Adam Kirsch writes. “Now that books are considered virtuous and edifying, moralists can’t persuade anyone to pick one up”:
****** Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence
“At a time when polarization is so amped up, aphorisms can serve as psychological circuit breakers, interrupting our comfortable assumptions and prodding us to open our minds, unclench our fists, and think for ourselves,” @JamesGeary argues:
NYTimes: There Is a Way Out of This Mess
Paul Krugman Why Trump’s Viciousness Matters
**** Paul Krugman Affordability, Part IV
Stop Defending Bari Weiss
**** CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump
[The Washington Post] The economic collapse that never happened
The economic collapse that never happened
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/23/economy-tariff-inflation-jobs/