Laura Marsh
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Literary Editor, The New Republic
Mount Sinai is once again playing chicken with its patients' lives and health
17 days ago
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Christopher Hooks
29 days ago
I reviewed American Canto…
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The Self-Delusions of Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto
Her memoir frequently shows an indifference toward truth, falsity, and meaning. In that way, it’s an artifact of our age.
https://newrepublic.com/article/204160/self-delusions-olivia-nuzzi-american-canto
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Stephen Lurie
3 months ago
Well it’s not long sentence, but I did get to write this essay for
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Timothy Noah
3 months ago
Nobody else is writing about this, so please re-post my two-part series about the imminent sale of what one expert calls “the Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” Preservationists need to move fast. Part one:
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Part two:
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The New Deal Masterpieces Threatened by Trump’s D.C. Downsizing
Your great-grandparents paid Ben Shahn and Philip Guston to create gorgeous public murals. Next year they could be rubble.
https://newrepublic.com/article/201055/ben-shahn-wpa-art-trump
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Anne Lutz Fernandez
3 months ago
Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
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Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education
Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...
https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/digital-platforms
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Phillip Maciak
3 months ago
I was in the midst of writing a nice, fluffy rave about s2 of PLATONIC for my Sept column when I decided I really wanted to write this instead — so, thanks to
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Kipnis on Agnes Callard:
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Is Agnes Callard Making You Uncomfortable?
In the philosopher’s world, provocation and controversy are inseparable from the examined life.
https://newrepublic.com/article/190778/agnes-callard-philosopher-uncomfortable-questions
11 months ago
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Siva
12 months ago
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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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.
https://newrepublic.com/article/190384/cell-phones-really-destroying-kids-mental-health
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John Semley
12 months ago
remembering David Lynch, for
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The Inimitable Weirdness of David Lynch
The filmmaker, who died this week, mixed the menacing with the everyday, the banal with the surreal and sublime.
https://newrepublic.com/article/190343/inimitable-weirdness-david-lynch
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Phillip Maciak
about 1 year ago
I feel really lucky that I have an editor (hi
@lauramarsh.bsky.social
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“3 Body Problem”’s Failure of Imagination
The new Netflix show faithfully adapts Liu Cixin’s bestselling novels but lacks imagination.
https://newrepublic.com/article/178146/3-body-problems-failure-imagination-netflix-tv-show-review
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Phillip Maciak
about 1 year ago
SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, one of the best shows on TV, ended last night with one last big number. This is what I wrote about it a few weeks ago. They left it all on the floor.
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Alex Shephard
about 1 year ago
why is this written like this lol
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Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”
When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/cormac-mccarthy-secret-muse-exclusive
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Jonathan W. Gray
over 1 year ago
My review of Ta-Nehisi’s latest is finally up! Lots of context here you won’t get elsewhere.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Corrects the Record
A trip to Israel and Palestine in 2023 made Coates rethink one of his most famous essays.
https://newrepublic.com/article/186177/ta-nehisi-coates-corrects-record
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Anna Kornbluh
over 1 year ago
up with the novel of ideas!
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Rachel Kushner wrote a perfect spy novel ft my favorite subject: Neaderthals
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Rachel Kushner’s Spy Games
In “Creation Lake,” a brilliant secret agent delights in her infiltration of a niche world of ideas.
https://newrepublic.com/article/185282/rachel-kushner-spy-games-creation-lake-review
over 1 year ago
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Stephen Kearse
over 1 year ago
I reviewed Alien: Romulus. I think it gets too caught up in fidelity to the franchise.
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Alien: Romulus Tried Too Hard To Be an Alien Movie
The latest installment lacks the imaginative strangeness of the earlier films.
https://newrepublic.com/article/185033/alien-romulus-tried-hard-alien-movie
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Phillip Maciak
about 2 years ago
My TNR essay about the Fall of the House of Usher is also kind of about the Fall of the House of Streaming in ways that might be interesting to folks with no interest in this show. FYI!
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This ruling seems good
https://newrepublic.com/article/172830/warhol-goldsmith-supreme-court-ai
over 2 years ago
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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth!
over 2 years ago
Gonna start calling ChatGPT's hyper-authoritative way of writing completely false information the Turing-Kruger effect
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I would not be surprised if the pressure to publish at insane volume persists long after the social infrastructure that rewarded it is gone
https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/05/no-need-to-shoot-the-messenger-its-muddled-ideas-are-doing-the-job/
over 2 years ago
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