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    "What is wise compassion? The best way to help is to be a sounding board."

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    This month, will revisit some of the most celebrated films of 2001 and examine how they shaped modern cinema. We want you to participate. This week, we’re looking at art-house films. Which movie should David watch and write about?

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    Last exit from Trump and Trumpism, my latest for

    "January 6 was the last exit," writes. "If you can shrug it off as no big deal, just another incident of Trump talking too much, then you have already signed up for the next incident—and the one after that."
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    How did "freedom" get redefined as "the right to infect others"? From last week in

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    Emily Oster has come to represent a certain mode of thinking about statistics and risk that can feel alienating or callous to some people who are worried about COVID-19. But the economist feels humbled by the pandemic, she tells :

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    This is still the bottom line on vaccines. They reduce infection, transmission, symptoms, hospitalization, and death. Not achieving those goals 100% does not mean vaccines are failing. Please don't miss the forest for the trees.

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    The arrogance and insularity of meritocratic elites fractured America’s class system and left resentment and alienation in its wake. It’s time we blame the bobos, writes.

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    "It’s a hard realization... the data is basically never going to answer those questions for you. You’re never going to be sure that you made the right decision, especially in these bigger questions with older kids." with :

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    Today on The Atlantic: the full story of the call that led to Trump’s impeachment, by . Plus: on how the creative class broke America, and ’s best advice for guiding loved ones through hard times. Read it all here:

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    Being truly supportive of someone who is struggling requires strength, patience, self-knowledge, and discipline. reviews ’s best advice on how to guide loved ones through hard times—without ever infringing on their agency:

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    I've been fascinated by how much certain strangers on the internet hate , an economist + parenting expert. I think it's a reaction against the worldview she embodies: using data as the ultimate guide to all decisions. So we talked about it.

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    Very interesting convo between and

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    The creative class was supposed to foster progressive values and economic growth. Instead we got resentment, alienation, and endless political dysfunction. David Brooks on "How the Bobos Broke America" (and on the wrongest sentence he's ever written):

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    .'s best advice on taking care of those around you who are going through a tough time

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    I wrote about the trolling minimizers of the January 6 attack on Congress

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    "'The educated class is in no danger of becoming a self-contained caste,' I wrote in 2000. 'Anybody with the right degree, job, and cultural competencies can join.' That turned out to be one of the most naive sentences I have ever written.”

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    "Bobos in Hell." From :

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    "Over the past two decades, the rapidly growing economic, cultural, and social power of the bobos has generated a global backlash that is growing more and more vicious... and apocalyptic. And yet this backlash is not without basis." :

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    From last week: we have to quit using Big Government to protect the unvaccinated from the economic consequences of their bad decisions

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    "If our old class structure was like a layer cake—rich, middle, and poor—the creative class is like a bowling ball that was dropped from a great height onto that cake." with a deep examination of class, rebellion, and generational conflict.

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