Month: December 2023

How to Stop Our High-Tech Equipment From Arming Russia and China

The Biden administration needs to enforce its effort to keep highly strategic technology from winding up in Russia and China.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/29/opinion/chips-semiconductor-china-russia-military.html?mwgrp=a-mbar&smid=em-share

Our society is secularizing, and Christianity seems to be in long-term decline. But renewal is possible.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/christianity-secularization-america-renewal-modernity/672948/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secret-shame/476415/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The alternative to mainstream social media came from inside the house.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/12/twitter-substack-elon-musk-alt-tech/676966/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

For several years, social-media users have expressed anxiety about algorithmic suppression. Now they’re getting some unexpected clarity. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/01/twitter-shadow-ban-transparency-algorithm-suppression/672736/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The forces of Christian nationalism are now ascendant both inside the Church and inside the Republican Party. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/christian-nationalism-danger/676974/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Technocratic management, no matter how brilliant, cannot unwind structural inequalities. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/how-mckinsey-destroyed-middle-class/605878/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYVneiYGv5d-VhnY9BG10Bng&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

American conservatives are taking cues from Hungary’s Viktor Orbán because elite education is a convenient enemy for authoritarian populists. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/viktor-orban-illiberalism-ron-desantis-universities/674915/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYbIC8VDKoea9hw-cALFr4mI&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social