In Search of Lost Time, by Tom Vanderbilt
The science of the perfect second
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Educating the TikTok generation
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[Easy Chair] | Forget About It, by Corey Robin | Harper's Magazine
In the uneasy months following 9/11, the Bush Administration provoked a minor controversy when it announced the name of a new office dedicated to protecting the United States from terrorism and other threats. “Homeland security” had unsavory associations: the Nazis often spoke of Heimat, which was also used in the 1920s and 1930s by an Austrian right-wing paramilitary group, the Heimwehr or Heimatschutz. Even Donald Rumsfeld, Bush’s secretary of defense, who had been in discussions about the ter...
