Subject: General/Miscellaneous
How to treat people: a nurse’s notes
As a teenager, Molly Case underwent an operation that saved her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the operating room again, this […]
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Fake news nation: the long history of lies and misinterpretations in America
After the election of Donald Trump as president, people in the United States and across large swaths of Europe, Latin America, and Asia engaged in […]
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Democracy in danger: how hackers and activists exposed fatal flaws in the election system
When cybersecurity expert Jake Braun challenged hackers at DEFCON, the largest hacking conference in the world, to breach the security of an American voting machine, […]
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Because internet: understanding the new rules of language
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity’s most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is […]
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Unfreedom of the press
The media, Fox News host Mark Levin Levin writes, constitute “a profession whose members form a class or aristocracy of strident, pretentious, arrogant, and self-righteously […]
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Talking to strangers: What we should know about the people we don’t know
In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The […]
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Mind over memes: Passive listening, toxic talk, and other modern language follies
This collection of interconnected essays tackles words, concepts, and phrases that have become part of the cultural conversation–but deserve to be reexamined. Combining sharp criticism, […]
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Justice on trial: The Kavanaugh confirmation and the future of the Supreme Court
In this definitive deep dive into the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, two women with extraordinary behind-the-scenes access–The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway […]
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How to be an antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America — but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating […]
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Hivemind: the new science of tribalism in our divided world
Hivemind: A collective consciousness in which we share consensus thoughts, emotions, and opinions; a phenomenon whereby a group of people function as if with a […]
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