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MAGAZINES
THE NEW REPUBLIC
The New Republic for October 2023 ... content information
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Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
This magazine aligns with my own thinking in an amazing uncanny way, which for me is quite exciting ... but porobably not good for the magazine and not good for the country.
I woke up this morning thinking about the lucky we are to have access to amazing knowledge and amazing technology, and at the same time a world that mostly ignores knowledge or uses knowledge and technology for nefarious purposes.
I want freedom, but there are limits to the freedom I should have ... and everyone else. Rules limit freedom, but rules are also essential for the world to function. Getting a good balance between too many and too few rules is important and not particularly easy.
Some powerful people seem to want to have the rules that suit them ... and I am thinking here of Governor Rom DiSantis of Florida. He seems to want limited rules as a Republican but more rules to support his political agenda. To me this is confusing, hypocritical and unacceptable in anyone in a leadership position!
When I was 'college age' in the UK around 1960, only about 5% of young people were going to university, and it was probably around the same percentage in Europe and the United States. Sixty years later the percentage is more like 60% but this may or may not be progress towards a better life ... a better quality of life. There is a dangerous mismatch between the cost of university, the price of university and the value of university and this mismatch has been growing for a long time.
Peter Burgess
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One Nation Under Trauma
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The New Republic
Septemer 15th 2023 ... 9:17 AM
In this issue:
Features
We Are Not Just Polarized. We Are Traumatized.
The pandemic. The mass shootings. Insurrection. Trump. We've been through so much. What if our entire national character is a trauma response?
By Ana Marie Cox
Everything You Need to Know About the Right-Wing War on Books
Here’s your guide to the heroes and villains—plus a list of the 50 most banned books.
By Jasmine Liu
Are “Never Trump” Republicans Actually Just Democrats Now?
Some are already hardcore progressives. And pollsters, politicians, and analysts from both parties say it may just be a matter of time before the rest switch parties, too.
By Ben Jacobs
How Big Tech Is Ruining the Dream of AI
Artificial intelligence once promised to make us healthier and wealthier. Now, we’re faced with either gimmicky chatbots or total annihilation.
By Mike Pearl
Ketchup With Those Fries? Sure—as Long as It’s Anti-Woke
Those Bud Light protests just scratched the surface. The right wing is constructing an entire parallel economy, from its own coffee to its own banks.
By Kathryn Joyce
State of the Nation
Why the GOP Fell in Love with Hungary
The central European country isn’t exactly the right-wing paradise many Republicans portray it as.
By Emily Tamkin
Who Said It: Josh Hawley or Ron Swanson?
They both hate the nanny state and think masculinity is under attack. Can you tell them apart?
By The New Republic
The Wall Street Journal’s Desperate Search for the Perfect Anti-Trump Candidate
The newspaper’s editorial board is the voice of the Republican establishment. No one is listening.
By Walter Shapiro
Welcome to College—and a Lifetime of Debt
College is unaffordable for millions. It’s time to rethink higher education.
By Indigo Olivier
Books & The Arts
The Mass Disappointment of a Decade of Mass Protest
The demonstrations of the last decade were vast and explosive—and surprisingly ineffective.
By Osita Nwanevu
The Ludicrous, Depressing Appeal of the Crypto Guy
How Sam Bankman-Fried and other unscrupulous CEOs managed to swindle so many people
By Jacob Bacharach
The Conservative Who Turned Against Corporate America
Sohrab Ahmari makes the case against big business. But how convincing is his commitment to help workers?
By Michael Kazin
The Changeling’s Problem With a Disappearing Woman
Apple’s horror series loses sight of the drama and grief at its center.
By Phillip Maciak
Naomi Klein’s Journey Into the Unnerving World of Naomi Wolf
After years of being mistaken for one another, Klein tried to find out why Wolf went down the conspiracy rabbit hole—and why so many people have followed her.
By Laura Marsh
The Real Horror in Only Murders in the Building: The Cost of Living in New York
In the Hulu show, everyone is struggling to get by in a hostile city.
By Jennifer Wilson
Res Publica
Hot Enough For You?
After this summer, no one can deny our climate crisis.
By Win McCormack
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