Robert Wosnitzer

Is Jonathan Haidt right about smartphones? In ‘The Anxious Generation’, Haidt makes the case that social media and smartphones have ‘rewired’ today’s teenagers, but his critics say the evidence tells us something very different - and that bann...

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17.09.2025 18:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why the Bursting of the AI Bubble Would Be Good for the Economy There is no reason to celebrate Elon Musk's wealth

The AI bubble will burst and it will be good for the country deanbaker22.substack.com/p/why-the-bu...

17.09.2025 18:51 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2

Large Language Muddle www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

17.09.2025 12:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TLDR: Peter Thiel weaponizes Nazi philosophy and biblical scripture to reframe democratic opposition as cosmic evil—while building the surveillance state he claims to fear.

16.09.2025 23:21 — 👍 218    🔁 115    💬 9    📌 4

If you’re wondering why China is taking their time picking up the phone.

@bloomberg.com @financialtimes.com @barrons.com

08.04.2025 22:37 — 👍 3803    🔁 860    💬 167    📌 85

🔥 📝 FOLKS — I'm working on a piece for Slate about the NEH cuts. If you've been affected in ANY way and would be willing to talk with me, please message me! I would love to learn more and include your story. katina [at] katinarogers [dot] com

#humanities #neh #education #highered

07.04.2025 22:58 — 👍 124    🔁 150    💬 9    📌 2

‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’ The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.

Imagine: a Palantir company town where everyone’s on gene therapy + ketamine and lives to 200, where each cul-de-sac gets its own nuclear plant and data center, where nobody’s a citizen + everybody’s a customer, where the owners are unregulated but everyone else is governed by Lumon-esque policy!

08.03.2025 14:49 — 👍 118    🔁 44    💬 12    📌 13

On Neoreaction – Undisciplining 2018

The so-called ‘dark enlightenment’ from Burrows in 2018

The NRx alternative seems to be to, first ‘Retire All Government Employees’ (RAGE) in order to ‘reboot’ the economy, and second, to replace democratic institutions with a CEO (or even a Monarch!).

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27.02.2025 11:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, this Cabinet — with a Fox & Friends drunk, a Real World airhead, a former heroin addict who beheaded a whale, a dog killer, a Russian stooge, a scandal-plagued wrestling executive, etc — this Cabinet is LITERALLY the best America has ever had.

Thank you for that insight, Elon. Smart as ever.

26.02.2025 22:37 — 👍 4092    🔁 971    💬 248    📌 50

Are Cell Phones Really Destroying Kids’ Mental Health? Jonathan Haidt once heralded an “ultrasocial” world. Now he’s one of social media’s most prominent critics.

I wrote about all the ways Jonathan Haidt gets it wrong and how early Haidt would not have been happy with later Haidt.

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23.01.2025 16:21 — 👍 197    🔁 59    💬 16    📌 31

That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement

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Trump assembling his cabinet picks:

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