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The Last Days Of Social Media

noemamag.com·36w·Hacker News, Hacker News

Does Society Have Too Many Rules?

newyorker.com·35w·Hacker News, Hacker News

Do media orgs even want cultural criticism?

nymag.com·35w·Hacker News, r/longform

10 Pieces of Icky Trivia from Mary Roach, the Laureate of the Lurid

nytimes.com·35w

Baseball is out of sync with the times and out of touch with its history. As Roger Angell put it: “I hate modern baseball”

wsj.com·35w

Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?

yalereview.org·35w

From bank robber to scholar: the Knoxville dropout fighting to change how we see addiction

theguardian.com·36w·Hacker News

"The prospect of time itself being wielded as a weapon has transformed the once-rare field of advanced horology into a strategic priority"

ft.com·35w

What’s most striking about the attack on higher education is not how illiberal it is; it’s how little Americans care

persuasion.community·35w

Tumult and Sympathy: The Letters of Oliver Sacks

commonwealmagazine.org·35w·Hacker News

What ails liberal democracy? Its defenders are myopic, parochial, and naive — and need of a strong dose of realism

democracyjournal.org·36w·Hacker News

The art of really digging into a work of literature is one of the great liberal arts. What if it’s a dying art?

thefp.com·36w·Hacker News, r/Longreads

Mike Jay: Priest of the Devil

lrb.co.uk·36w

Robin D. G. Kelley: “The myth of the liberal university, of the transcendent intellectual, of the power of reason shatters at once”

bostonreview.net·36w·Hacker News

William F. Buckley, curious about marijuana, sailed into international waters to try it. Then he dabbled with LSD

commonreader.co.uk·36w

"One of the things I came to admire about academia is the way it manages to screw everyone in a slightly different way"

therepublicofletters.substack.com·36w·Substack

The man who inspired Shakespeare, infuriated Robert Greene, shafted Thomas Kyd, and was stabbed in murky circumstances

literaryreview.co.uk·36w

A Stranger Everywhere

theamericanscholar.org·36w

VS Naipaul’s glorious failure

unherd.com·37w·unherd.com

ChatGPT launched in late 2022. It took only a few years for everyone to start talking like chatbots

wapo.st·36w

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