Jay Caspian Kang
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Individual Choices Won’t Fix America’s Public Schools
Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a struggling local school and has come to regret it. But personalizing the problem is the wrong approach.
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How the Absence of Shame Weakens Democracy
A sense of shame binds us together—and can hold the powerful in check.
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Will A.I. Overwrite Our Sense of Shame?
The tech world has long been run by iconoclasts whose ideas about right and wrong are self-consciously different from those of most people.
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The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart
Increasingly, people are ignoring social norms in favor of a narrow self-interest. The results are disastrous.
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How the Job Market Will Shape the Next Generation
Young people are already discontented. It’s not going to get better anytime soon.
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How I Became a Subaru Socialist
By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark.
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If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React?
The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise.
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Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed
The voters who are determining the future of the Democratic Party.
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The Kids Are Kind of All Right
Recently, there has been much hand-wringing about downwardly mobile young adults living with their parents into their twenties or thirties. What’s really going on?
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V.A.R. and the Rise of Our New Tech Overlords
The World Cup replay system has fostered a very contemporary kind of paranoia about who controls the machines.
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A New American Soccer Culture Is Emerging
A decade ago, the fandom around Major League Soccer and the U.S. men’s national team was very white and very imitative. That’s starting to change.
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The Joyful Pointlessness of World Cup Sticker Books
For a parent, finding a children’s activity that hasn’t been digitized, optimized, or turned into gambling feels like a balm.
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Eight Predictions for the Future of Higher Education
The next decade won’t be Armageddon. But it will bring a lot of change.
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Can A.I. Produce Writing That We Actually Want to Read?
I recently created a simple test, which convinced me that the answer is no.
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The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I.
“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”
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The Enrollment Cliff Is Here. Which Schools Will Survive It?
As the number of new high-school graduates drops, colleges will close, some will merge, and others may change beyond recognition.
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Why the Future of College Could Look Like OnlyFans
Universities have become generic, one professor and former dean argues. In the A.I. era, students may demand something they can’t get elsewhere.
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Will A.I. Make College Obsolete?
Americans already distrust institutions, including academia. More and more people may decide that its stamp of approval isn’t worth the cost.
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Why the Future of College Could Look Like OnlyFans
Universities have become generic, one professor and former dean argues. In the A.I. era, students may demand something they can’t get elsewhere.
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Will A.I. Make College Obsolete?
Americans already distrust institutions, including academia. More and more people may decide that its stamp of approval isn’t worth the cost.
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The Spectacle of War and the Struggle to Protest
On social media, images of destruction in Iran are giving way to commentary from talking heads, dulling the reality of war.
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CNN’s “Podcast Look” and the Slow Death of Cable News
The network’s experiment in style was embarrassing, but it may tell us more about the state of podcasting than it does about legacy media.
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How Should We Remember the Hippies?
They’ve often been a punch line, but by fusing their political convictions to a broader cultural identity they seemed to find something that we’ve lost.
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The No-Explanation War
From the daily newsletter: what the Trump Administration isn’t bothering to say about the war in Iran.
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The No-Explanation War
The Trump Administration has decided that it need not make a case for military action. In the current media environment, that approach makes a disturbing kind of sense.
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How the University Replaced the Church as the Home of Liberal Morality
As progressive Americans have become more secular, the academy has become their primary moral training ground. The results have not been good.
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Can “Mindfulness” Be a Path to Activism?
Thich Nhat Hanh saw mindfulness as a way to understand the “interbeing” between all forms of life, but its social dimension has been largely forgotten.
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A Theology of Immigration
“None of us have a permanent residence here in this world,” the Reverend Dan Groody says.
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Why an Agnostic Animal-Rights Activist Went to Seminary
Wayne Hsiung has gone to court and done jail time to improve the lives of animals. Now he’s going to church.
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Can American Churches Lead a Protest Movement Under Trump?
The Sanctuary Movement was led by clergy, and many religious leaders are activists today. But, as congregations have shrunk, dissent has diminished.
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What Comes After the Protests
The killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis will continue to bring people to the streets. Can it bring change?
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What a Viral YouTube Video Says About the Future of Journalism
A streamer’s investigation of fraud in Minnesota garnered millions of views. His content was questionable, but his methods will likely inspire scores of imitators.
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Americans Won’t Ban Kids from Social Media. What Can We Do Instead?
Free-speech norms and powerful tech companies make legal restrictions unlikely—but social changes are already taking place.
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Five Things That Changed the Media in 2025
A.I., of course—but there were also other, less obvious stories and trends that are going to shape how we understand the news.
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If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?
Books are inefficient, and the internet is training us to expect optimized experiences.
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Jeffrey Epstein, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the Future of American Politics
Life after Trump may not be what we expect.
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Nick Fuentes Is Not Just Another Alt-Right Boogeyman
The rise of the white-nationalist streamer should worry us even more than it already does.
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Is Gambling Really Threatening the Integrity of Sports?
After a recent N.B.A. scandal, more writers and pundits have come out against legalized betting. But the case that they’re making is weaker than it appears.
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What Explains Graham Platner’s Popularity?
The U.S. Senate candidate from Maine seems like the embodiment of the dirtbag left. But there’s another way to understand his appeal.
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Sora 2 and the Limits of Digital Narcissism
What we enjoy about generative A.I. may also be its ultimate limitation: we want to see ourselves.
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