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NYTimes: The Crucial Issue of the 21st Century

The Crucial Issue of the 21st Century www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/opinion/democratic-republican-parties.html

The Birth of the Attention Economy The rise of the cheap, daily newspaper

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/07/the-birth-of-the-attention-economy/683727/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYbF3OjV6UG7_QbXeHt7KvPU

The Birth of the Attention Economy

The rise of the cheap, daily newspaper in the 19th century remade how Americans engaged with the world.

By Jake Lundberg

****** NYTimes: It Takes a ‘Very Stable Genius’ to Push the Genius Act

It Takes a ‘Very Stable Genius’ to Push the Genius Act www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/opinion/trump-crypto-genius-act-memcoin.html

A Nasty, Cynical, and Eerily Accurate Look at All-Too-Recent History

The new film “Eddington” is a nasty, cynical, and eerily accurate look at the pandemic’s early days—when there was “nowhere to turn to but the conspiratorial thinking, heated debates, and endless updates online,” writes @shirklesxp:

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/07/eddington-ari-aster-film-review/683595/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYWjegdhq-UB4ZbTPh5ZttUE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

NYTimes: Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/opinion/smartphones-literacy-inequality-democracy.html

***** Trump Is Making Socialism Great Again Capitalism needs better advocates. By David Frum

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/nasa-spacex-elon-musk-ambitions/683559/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYYYwPbZ0jOTREC6xTHilwnM

NYTimes: The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani

The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/opinion/mamdani-race-college-admissions.html

******* Columbia University, the Trump administration and “ad hoc governance”: Iterations of the “Unstate” ADAM TOOZE David Pozen

Chartbook 399: Columbia University, the Trump administration and “ad hoc governance”: Iterations of the “Unstate”

https://open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/p/chartbook-399-columbia-university?r=3azmy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Adam Tooze

Jul 24, 2025

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed

David Pozen

https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regulation-by-deal-comes-to-higher-ed.html

****** The General Theory of Enshittification

The General Theory of Enshittification

Paul Krugman

https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/the-general-theory-of-enshittification?r=3azmy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

******* Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023)

Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023)

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys