Is Google Making Us Stupid?
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Author: Jim
Hawaii vs. Citizens United State lawmakers want to change the terms of personhood for corporations.
The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right. By Helen Lewis
NYTimes: I Don’t Think You Can Even Call This Hypocrisy
I Don’t Think You Can Even Call This Hypocrisy https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/opinion/southern-baptist-convention-paul-pressler.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
**** NYTimes: This Is Getting Dangerous
*** NYTimes: Trump Is Fighting the World’s Stupidest Culture War
Trump Is Fighting the World’s Stupidest Culture War https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/trump-is-fighting-the-worlds-stupidest-culture-war.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
**** The Attention-Span Panic
Americans see a diminished attention span is a sign of personal weakness, or even intellectual debasement—but this might be an outdated way of thinking, Franklin Schneider argues:
Send the Frigates
European nations “have very good reasons to be furious with the Trump administration”—but assisting the U.S. in the Strait of Hormuz may actually be in their best interest, @EliotACohen argues: