This Week’s Selections
The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books (link)
Why is the speed of light so fast? (link)
How Do You Forgive the People Who Killed Your Family? (link)
When Cocaine Looked Like an Obvious Solution (link)
How Hamas Built a War Machine of Tunnels and Homemade Weapons (link)
Other Items of Note
Benny Morris on new fronts in Israel’s war (link)
Palestinian children recovering in Qatar (link)
Is culture dying? (link)
Virginia Postrel with reports from North Carolina (link)
Devastation in the town of Chimney Rock (link)
Why the Pomona College English department never issued a statement against racism (link)
Alexis Madrigal on a local flower store closing (link)
Megan McArdle sees glimmers of hope on free speech (link)
Noah Smith on appreciating the U.S. economy right now (link)
Ross Douthat: “Never before has the United States faced quite so many global strategic challenges with a president who isn’t really there.” (link)
David Brooks on industrial policy (link)
The lawfare threat that Donald Trump poses (link)
Coleman Hughes is not a fan of the new Ta-Nehisi Coates book (link)
Jay Caspian Kang considers its prose (link)
Phoebe is skeptical of its coverage (link)
Matt Yglesias on gender differences in voting (link)
Grading Argentina’s president (link)
The nasty feud that could flip Wisconsin (link)
A sheep crime (link)
A thought experiment about Stanford on the moon (link)
Why Americans hate Washington (link)
Katherine Dee argues that culture is not stuck (link)
On an underrated novelist (link)
On American military strategy in a world of limited resources (link)
English, a language of beautiful impurity (link)
Hallucinating video AI (link)
Andrew Sullivan on J.D. Vance (link)
On parking lot removal (link)
Road deaths in Africa (link)
Dan Rothschild on the cost of signalling (link)
A critique of the U.S. intelligence community’s diversity claims (link)