The Atlantic – The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Could a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a millennium and a half ago explain what made the industrialized world so powerful—and so peculiar?

***** How Facebook Works for Trump
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
****** Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
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
****** Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
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. […]
******* The Largest Autocracy on Earth
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
********** The New Propaganda War
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/china-russia-republican-party-relations/678271/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social China has gotten closer to its holy grail: a system that can eliminate not just the words democracy and Tiananmen from the internet, but the thinking that leads people to become democracy activists or attend public […]
***** The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education
Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/campus-left-university-columbia-1968/678176/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
***** NYTimes.com: Why the Protests Help Trump
Why the Protests Help Trump The excesses of social protest movements can play into the hands of candidates who promise to restore order. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/opinion/student-protests-trump.html?smid=em-share
NYTimes.com: The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism
The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism Our biggest mistake would be to believe that Trumpism is a historical exception. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/opinion/trump-second-term-illiberalism.html?smid=em-share
****** [The Washington Post] How Putin is forging a harsh Russian society that threatens the global order
How Putin is forging a harsh Russian society that threatens the global order https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/putin-values-russian-society-conservatism/ Sent from my U.S.Cellular© Smartphone Get Outlook for Android
**** NYTimes.com: Are Smartphones Driving Our Teens to Depression?
Are Smartphones Driving Our Teens to Depression? The evidence reveals a more complicated reality than the conventional wisdom would have you believe. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/opinion/smartphones-social-media-mental-health-teens.html?smid=em-share

***** How Facebook Works for Trump
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
****** Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
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
****** Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
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. […]
******* The Largest Autocracy on Earth
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
********** The New Propaganda War
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/china-russia-republican-party-relations/678271/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social China has gotten closer to its holy grail: a system that can eliminate not just the words democracy and Tiananmen from the internet, but the thinking that leads people to become democracy activists or attend public […]
***** The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education
Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/campus-left-university-columbia-1968/678176/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
***** NYTimes.com: Why the Protests Help Trump
Why the Protests Help Trump The excesses of social protest movements can play into the hands of candidates who promise to restore order. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/opinion/student-protests-trump.html?smid=em-share
NYTimes.com: The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism
The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism Our biggest mistake would be to believe that Trumpism is a historical exception. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/opinion/trump-second-term-illiberalism.html?smid=em-share
****** [The Washington Post] How Putin is forging a harsh Russian society that threatens the global order
How Putin is forging a harsh Russian society that threatens the global order https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/putin-values-russian-society-conservatism/ Sent from my U.S.Cellular© Smartphone Get Outlook for Android
**** NYTimes.com: Are Smartphones Driving Our Teens to Depression?
Are Smartphones Driving Our Teens to Depression? The evidence reveals a more complicated reality than the conventional wisdom would have you believe. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/opinion/smartphones-social-media-mental-health-teens.html?smid=em-share