Author: Jim

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

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

Walter Kirn and the empty politics of defiance

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/walter-kirn/678187/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Universities spent years saying that activism is not just welcome but encouraged on their campuses. Students took them at their word.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/college-activism-hypocrisy/678262/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

American minds are not ready to think about how fast democracy could disintegrate.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/05/a-failure-of-imagination-about-trump/678278/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

American minds are not ready to think about how fast democracy could disintegrate.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/05/a-failure-of-imagination-about-trump/678278/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The bird-flu panic is getting out of hand.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/05/milk-cant-catch-a-break/678274/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

A new book looks at how white families depleted the resources of the suburbs and left more recent Black and Latino residents “holding the bag.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/01/benjamin-herold-disillusioned-suburbs/677229/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social