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The Age of the Crisis of Work, by Erik Baker
Illustrations by Grace J. Kim Something has gone wrong with work. On this, everyone seems to agree. Less clear is the precise nature of the problem, let alone who or what is to blame. For some time…
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The European Way to Die, by Michel HouellebecqTranslated by Robyn Creswell
On euthanasia and assisted suicide
«As Nietzsche writes in Beyond Good and Evil, “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.”»
Contest or Conquest?, by Daniel Immerwahr
A provocative history of Indigenous America
Harper's Magazine on Media
[Report] Bad News, By Joseph Bernstein
Selling the story of disinformation
«Is social media creating new types of people, or simply revealing long-obscured types of people to a segment of the public unaccustomed to seeing them?»
The Incredible Disappearing Doomsday, by Kyle Paoletta
How the climate catastrophists learned to stop worrying and love the calm
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