EditorialThere’s one genuinely powerful force seeking a more podlike, nutshell-bounded human future,” writes The New York Times columnists Ross Douthat. “It’s the technicians of Silicon Valley, backed by billions in digital-age ambition, who’ll seemingly stop at nothing until human beings live inside their goggles.” (Alain Pilon/The New York Times)
Editorial“Between the Dominion Voting Systems settlement and the Tucker Carlson firing, we’ve had a lot of real-world Fox drama lately, and the contrast between reality and fiction tells us something interesting about how art depicts our politics — and how the nature of democratic politics can resist successful dramatization,” writes the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times)
Editorial“Between the Dominion Voting Systems settlement and the Tucker Carlson firing, we’ve had a lot of real-world Fox drama lately, and the contrast between reality and fiction tells us something interesting about how art depicts our politics — and how the nature of democratic politics can resist successful dramatization,” writes the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times)
Editorial“The news that Kenneth Griffin, a hedge fund billionaire, is donating a cool $300 million to Harvard University, where his name will adorn the entire Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, provoked the kind of pan-ideological revulsion that in our polarized times only the richest Ivy League schools still reliably inspire,” Ross Douthat writes. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times)
EditorialOne effect of the coronavirus pandemic has been to normalize a debate about mysterious chronic illnesses that previously hovered at the fringes of American public discourse, Ross Douthat writes. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times)
EditorialThe idea that getting rich is good (or even obligatory) so long as you’re giving enough of it away, can become a justification for embracing a soul-corroding competitiveness, Ross Douthat writes. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times)
EditorialThe pattern of stalemate isn’t just a simple matter of repeated failure by the two parties. Instead, it reflects a mixture characteristic of American society nowadays — unimaginative repetitions and somewhat destructive forms of efficiency, writes New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times)
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