"To think that the rightful role of the continent that invented the printing press and the steam engine, the automobile and the World Wide Web is to become the world’s regulator-in-chief is ... reminiscent of a child’s dream of growing up to be a hall monitor."
"To think that the rightful role of the continent that invented the printing press and the steam engine, the automobile and the World Wide Web is to become the world’s regulator-in-chief is ... reminiscent of a child’s dream of growing up to be a hall monitor."
Why would Vance focus on a cultural crusade against European governments? Because this type of populism works best in opposition to an established power, which is no longer possible in the US since Trump's inauguration.
February 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Why would Vance focus on a cultural crusade against European governments? Because this type of populism works best in opposition to an established power, which is no longer possible in the US since Trump's inauguration.
Have Democrats lost their resolve, or are their voices being muted in a new tech landscape that’s swung toward the right? “The trolls won the medium and the country went with it,” Jay Caspian Kang writes.
"The very prospect that justice is conceivable, that the arc of the moral universe endures, that there is a light that was always there at the end of the tunnel, if only you squinted amid the enveloping dark? I cannot quite conceive of the words."
I’m not really worthy to write anything about beautiful Syria today but they asked me to and so I tried through tears to write some words that are inadequate but here they are anyway: Dawn in Damascus @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/spotlight/da...
"The very prospect that justice is conceivable, that the arc of the moral universe endures, that there is a light that was always there at the end of the tunnel, if only you squinted amid the enveloping dark? I cannot quite conceive of the words."