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How to Create a Society That Prizes Decency

It starts with keeping our humanity and recognizing it in others.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/opinion/polarization-biden-america.html?smid=em-share

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There is a simple way to fix the Antisemitism Awareness Act.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/opinion/anti-semitism-awareness-act-fix.html?smid=em-share

The Happiness Gap Between Left and Right Isn’t Closing

Why is it that a substantial body of social science research finds that conservatives are happier than liberals?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/opinion/conservatives-liberals-depression-anxiety.html?smid=em-share

How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

 

Seeing the University More Clearly By DAVID POZEN

PUBLISHED 05.07.24

 

https://lpeproject.org/blog/seeing-the-university-more-clearly/

 

 

The Campus Protests Signal the End of an Era for the Democrats

The alliance of the elite establishment and progressives is showing signs of fraying.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/opinion/campus-protest-election-gaza-democrats.html?smid=em-share

Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/04/how-facebooks-ad-technology-helps-trump-win/606403/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/facebook-doomsday-machine/617384/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Social media—from Facebook to Twitter—have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity, new research suggests that we have never been lonelier (or more narcissistic)—and that this loneliness is making us mentally and physically ill. A report on what the epidemic of loneliness is doing to our souls and our society.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/308930/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/facebook-authoritarian-hostile-foreign-power/620168/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social