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An Older Rupture
In Search of Lost Time

The endless loop of lockdown highlights something we had lost long before coronavirus: our sense of past, present, and future.

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Competing Narratives
Universal Lessons from the Battles over Ukraine’s Identity

A new collection of essays shows how Ukraine’s battles with trauma and division have lessons for us all.

(Arnold Genthe, Art Institute of Chicago)
Communicative Insanity
The Death of the Neutral Public Sphere

The “marketplace of ideas” looks as corrupt in 2019 as the “free market” did in 2008.

Getting to Quality
Breaking the Polarization Spiral

How can we encourage the public to consume less “junk” news? It won’t be easy.

The New Public Square
How (Not) to Regulate the Internet

We should be more focused on protecting user rights than on policing content itself.

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Cultural Recovery
Zelensky, the Post-Soviet Man

Part of Zelensky’s appeal is that he offers a way for people who still feel close to Soviet and Russian pop culture to become politically European.

(Ivan Albright, Art Institute of Chicago)
Demand Transparency
The Online Tempest, And How To Tame It

The internet is rapidly eroding what Joseph Pieper once called “the right to our share in reality.” We won’t recover that share unless we start insisting on transparency.

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Trollocracy
Defending Journalists in an Era of “Destroyed Rights”

The vicious digital campaign to silence Filipino news site Rappler and its editor Maria Ressa makes clear that it’s time for a new accord on human rights online.

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Losing the Narrative
Under the Information Rubble

What happens when the stories through which we make sense of the world collapse?

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English Irony
The New British Exceptionalism

For all their differences, Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson both link humor, national identity, and an attachment to England’s imperial importance in ways that point to common national pathologies.

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