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Newyork
Have I Been Good or Bad This Year? Here’s Some New Math.
Here we are at the end of another year, and as humans are wont to do around this time, I’ve been reflecting. Have I been a good person? Has my existence been of net benefit to humanity? When my expiration date comes — whether by murder hornet, bovine ...
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News
After Half a Century, Fauci Prepares for Life After Government
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, whose last day as a federal employee is Saturday, plans to write a memoir and wants to encourage people to go into public service.
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Newyork
Clutter Is Good for You
Several years before she died, my mother began sending me things — ostensibly significant objects. These included expected items like jewelry and photographs, but also puzzling ones. For example, one afternoon I opened a package containing a ...
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Newyork
The Sad Tales of George Santos
What would it be like to be so ashamed of your life that you felt compelled to invent a new one? Most of us don’t feel compelled to do that. Most of us take the actual events of our lives, including the failures and frailties, and we gradually ...
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Newyork
The Signal App and the Danger of Privacy at All Costs
Two weeks ago, the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey passionately advocated in a blog post the view that neither Twitter nor the government nor any other company should exert control over what participants post. “It’s critical,” he said, “that the ...
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Newyork
This 2022 ‘Best of’ List Includes Swaddling a Chicken
For my last newsletter of 2022, I want to highlight parenting media that I loved this year. I tend toward three varieties of entertainment in this category: whatever makes me laugh, whatever makes me feel seen and whatever teaches me something new ...
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Books
Use Your Disillusion: A Philosopher Makes the Case
“In Praise of Failure,” by Costica Bradatan, examines a handful of thinkers who rejected worldly success in favor of struggle.
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Newyork
The Language We Use to Talk About Domestic Violence Isn’t Enough
On a cold October morning, Colin Canham and his wife, Sara Emerick, were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide. Mr. Canham was found lying near a firearm outside the couple’s home. Ms. Emerick was inside. A detective told me that it seemed that Mr ...
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Newyork
Is the Inflation Storm Letting Up?
The average national price of regular gasoline this Christmas was almost 20 cents a gallon lower than it was a year earlier. Prices at the pump are still higher than they were during the pandemic slump, when economic shutdowns depressed world oil ...
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US
Joe Lieberman to Kyrsten Sinema: Come on In, the Water’s Warm
Few others know quite what it’s like to infuriate the Democratic Party by leaving it.