Month: March 2024

What the Fight Over the Capital One-Discover Merger Misses About Our Terrible Credit Card System

The deal will do nothing to fix policies that exacerbate the wealth gap and help big business get even bigger.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/opinion/capital-one-discover-credit-cards-rewards-swipe-fees.html?smid=em-share

Israel Has No Choice but to Fight On

As long as Hamas maintains military power, there is no hope for peace.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/opinion/israel-hamas-war-military.html?smid=em-share

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/business/jonathan-haidt-smartphones-coddling.html?smid=em-share

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 minds

·        (“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).

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

Netanyahu Is Making Israel Radioactive

Things have gone terribly wrong in Gaza. They could get worse soon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/opinion/israel-hamas-war-netanyahu.html?smid=em-share

How German Atheists Made America Great Again

Taken together, two new books tell the century-long story of the revolutionary ideals that transformed the United States, and the counterrevolutionaries who fought them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/books/review/an-emancipation-of-the-mind-matthew-stewart-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-second-american-republic-manisha-sinha.html?smid=em-share

What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself?

If the current Israeli military approach is inhumane, is there an alternative?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/opinion/gaza-israel-war.html?smid=em-share