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  • Our Divisive News Media Needs Clark Kent

    Our Divisive News Media Needs Clark Kent0

    When I was a kid growing up in Boonville, North Carolina (population 600), my public library was the comic book and magazine section near the front of Weatherwax Pharmacy on Main Street. Because I occasionally spent the 12 cents to buy one of the comic books, Mr. Weatherwax tolerated my hours spent sitting on that

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  • Our Disturbing AI Future: Google Gemini Said <i>What</i> About Hitler?

    Our Disturbing AI Future: Google Gemini Said What About Hitler?2

    In the early years of its founding, Google adopted the motto “Don’t be evil” as its guiding moral principle and an expression of the company’s aim to provide users with “unbiased access to information,” as stated in its original code of conduct. In May 2018, that motto went missing. Around the same time, Google executives

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  • Our Digital Drugs Affect More Than Just Children

    Our Digital Drugs Affect More Than Just Children9

    When it comes to children, we’re more than ready to acknowledge that screens have had a negative impact on their well-being. Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” is proof. As of April, that book had spent 52 weeks on the New York Times’ best-seller

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  • Our Database of Police Officers Who Shoot Citizens Reveals Who’s Most Likely to Shoot

    Our Database of Police Officers Who Shoot Citizens Reveals Who’s Most Likely to Shoot0

    In the debate over fatal police shootings of minority citizens, one theme is persistent: White officers, rather than nonwhite officers, are primarily responsible for black Americans being shot by the police. For example, look to Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s handling of the recent shooting of black resident Eric Logan in his hometown of South

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  • Our Culture’s Love Affair With Self-Delusion

    Our Culture’s Love Affair With Self-Delusion0

    What better example of the Zeitgeist of transgenderism can there be than Florence Foster Jenkins, starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant? So powerful a theme is it that the French have released what is very nearly the same movie but, bien sûr en français, Marguerite. Both of them have been rapturously received by the critics.

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  • Our Culture of Narcissism Fosters Misery. Here’s Why.

    Our Culture of Narcissism Fosters Misery. Here’s Why.2

    “You be you.” “Follow your heart.” “Pursue your dreams.” “Be yourself.” Such are the individualistic mantras of the 21st century, which continually call us to look inward for our “true selves” and lasting happiness. Historian and social critic Christopher Lasch called this a culture of narcissism. But does happiness truly come from within? Thaddeus Williams

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