Osama bin Laden wanted to eradicate faith in American power. The 9/11 attacks alone did not accomplish that goal. But 25 years later, America’s own mistakes have brought it closer to fulfillment than bin Laden ever could, Ali Soufan argues:
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Why Do So Many People Think Trump Is Good? The work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre helps illuminate some central questions of our time. By David Brooks
NYTimes Gift Article: Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened.
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**** Why the Age of American Progress Ended Invention alone can’t change the world; what matters is what happens next.
AI Is Already Making Us Less Human As we learn to think more and more highly of the bots, we will learn to think less and less highly of our fellow humans. By David Brooks
MAGA’s Imaginary Censorship-Industrial Complex
After a year and a half, the Trump administration has found no evidence of the “censorship-industrial-complex,” @anneapplebaum writes. When examined closely, it disappeared “like a soap bubble that vanishes with the touch of a hand”: