NotableWe weren’t built for a world like this. “A not irrational response to all this would be to try to ignore it. Lots of people are doing so. Yet this kind of avoidance will just get us in deeper trouble by ceding control to those who profit from it, so I hope we won’t choose quietism or escape.” — Bill McKibben, a professor at Middlebury College What if writing isn’t central to thinking? “We shouldn’t always force students to maintain a written record of knowledge. Universities have forgotten that archiving and thinking are separate.” — Joe Cruz, the chair of the philosophy department at Williams College The secret history of the war in Gaza. “Once the system categorizes the person as a terrorist, he becomes a human target. Members of his family or staff could be killed along with him. This is where NAZA comes in: the acceptable number of additional casualties rises along with the perceived importance of the human target. It may be 20, 50 or even 100. People.” — M. Gessen, an Opinion columnist Spotlight
Data Centers Are Bad for the G.O.P. But Can Democrats Make It Their Issue?The problems of frontier technology were there before President Trump arrived and will be there after he leaves. ICYMII once celebrated marriage. Things have changed. “Upon rereading this essay 11 years after writing it, I’m relieved that I didn’t pretend in 2015 I had marriage figured out. Perhaps not surprisingly, I don’t feel that I have divorce figured out, either.” — Curtis Sittenfeld, a novelist Listen (or Watch)More in Opinion
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