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**** History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
************ NYTimes.com: Trump’s Backers Are Determined Not to Blow It This Time Around
Trump’s Backers Are Determined Not to Blow It This Time Around
The right-wing networks Trump can count on are ready for action.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/opinion/leonard-leo-heritage-trump-2025.html?smid=em-share
**** There’s Valuable Speech on Social Media, Even for Kids
There’s Valuable Speech on Social Media, Even for Kids
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/02/opinion/thepoint/social-media-children?smid=url-share
*** NYTimes.com: What the TikTok Bill Is Really About, According to a Leading Republican
What the TikTok Bill Is Really About, According to a Leading Republican
Representative Mike Gallagher on what message a potential ban of TikTok sends to the rest of the world and what he views as the real threat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/opinion/mike-gallagher-tiktok-sale-ban.html?smid=em-share
*** What Would Society Look Like if Extreme Wealth Were Impossible?
Limitarianism questions the idea that individual wealth is ever individual.
****** End the Phone-Based Childhood Now
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.
**** What Happens When Kids Don’t See Their Peers for Months
Socializing is a crucial part of growing up. The pandemic brought it to a halt.
**** Mr. Haidt’s canon
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/business/jonathan-haidt-smartphones-coddling.html?smid=em-shar
Read through all of Mr. Haidt’s canon and it can be summed up as a guide to changing yourself
- “The Happiness Hypothesis,” 2006); changing other people’s mind
- “The Righteous Mind,” 2012; changing your own mind
- “The Coddling of the American Mind,” 2018); and changing your tech-addicted children
- “The Anxious Generation,” on shelves March 26).
*********** NYTimes.com: First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones about Jonathan Haidt books
First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones
The N.Y.U. professor Jonathan Haidt became a favorite in Silicon Valley for his work on what he called the “coddling” of young people. Now, he has an idea for fixing Gen Z.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/business/jonathan-haidt-smartphones-coddling.html?smid=em-share