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26 years ago December 1996 “You can’t understand technology without understanding how people think about technology, and, of course, you need to know the bad ideas as well as the …
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15 years ago July 2007 “Evangelicals and Aquarians were more alike than they knew. Both sought firsthand spiritual experience; both believed that such experience could set them free and change …
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15 years ago June 2007 “[Wikipedia founder Jimmy] Wales is optimistic about the internet too. ‘There’s a certain kind of dire anti-market person,’ he says, ‘who assumes that no matter …
Archives: May 2022
15 years ago May 2007 “What do these four ‘public health’ problems—smoking, playing violent video games, overeating, and gambling—have in common? They’re all things that some people enjoy and other …
Archives: April 2022
15 years ago April 2007 “If a student doesn’t subscribe to the campus orthodoxy, the likely effect is not to convert her but to alienate her from intellectual life. Others …
Archives: February 2022
15 years ago February 2007 “Reality TV has many lessons to teach us, but there is one it reiterates with a frequency even parrots can’t match: If you want people …
Archives: January 2022
15 years ago January 2007 “NewSpacers have passed out of their whiny adolescent phase and into industrious young adulthood. Their aspirations are appropriately modest—mostly suborbital, just a quick trip to …
Archives: November 2021
15 years ago November 2006 “Is radical Islamic terrorism today as great a threat to the West as Nazism and then Communism were in their day? Hitler’s and Stalin’s empires …
Archives: October 2021
15 years ago October 2006 “The regulations are so onerous that principals rarely even try to fire a teacher. Most just put the bad ones in pretend-work jobs, or sucker …
US Constitution gets a trigger warning on the National Archives website
On the official National Archives website, the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence now has a trigger warning, cautioning visitors that the documents contain “harmful …