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In earlier cultural epochs, many people derived their self-worth from their relationship with God, or from their ability to be a winner in the commercial marketplace. But in a therapeutic culture people’s sense of self-worth depends on their subjective feelings about themselves. Do I feel good about myself? From the start, many writers noticed that this ethos often turned people into fragile narcissists. It pushed them in on themselves, made them self-absorbed, craving public affirmation so they could feel good about themselves.
Persons: Philip Rieff, Christopher Lasch, Tom Wolfe, Lasch, ” Lasch,
Opinion | Climate Is Now a Culture War Issue
  + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Paul Krugman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
if Republicans do take the White House, has a lot to do with the way science in general and climate science in particular have become a front in the culture war. About attitudes toward science: As recently as the mid-2000s, Republicans and Democrats had similar levels of trust in the scientific community. Does anyone seriously doubt that similar attitudes are driving rank-and-file Republicans to oppose action on climate change? The fact that the climate war is now part of the culture war worries me, a lot. Special interests can do a great deal of damage, but they can be bought off or counterbalanced with other special interests.
Persons: there’s, David Brooks, Organizations: Democrats
Yet he is utterly dominating his Republican rivals in the polls, and he is tied with Joe Biden in the general election surveys. Trump’s poll numbers are stronger against Biden now than at any time in 2020. But if you are a person of color, a woman who values gender equality or an L.G.B.T. I doubt it.”In this story we anti-Trumpers are the good guys, the forces of progress and enlightenment. I ask you to try on a vantage point in which we anti-Trumpers are not the eternal good guys.
Persons: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, What’s, Marc Hetherington, Thomas B, Edsall, it’s Organizations: Republican, Biden, University of North, Republicans, Trump Locations: University of North Carolina
On our call I tried to briefly counter Hofstadter by arguing that the bots are not really thinking; they’re just piggybacking on human thought. is capable of synthesizing these linguistic expressions, which humans have put on the internet and, thus, into its training base. Maybe it’s more than just a mash-up of human expressions. Maybe it’s synthesizing human thought in ways that are genuinely creative, that are genuinely producing new categories and new thoughts. I find myself surrounded by radical uncertainty — uncertainty not only about where humanity is going but about what being human is.
Persons: Hofstadter, I’d, Jaron Lanier, Lanier Organizations: Yorker
Opinion | Why I Still Love the New York Mets
  + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Chip … chip … chip. I can feel the New York Mets chiseling out a piece of my soul every week. This is far from the first time the Mets have ripped out my vitals. In 2007, the team blew a seven-game divisional lead with 17 games to play. The Mets were in the middle of blowing another divisional lead, but needed only one win to make the playoffs.
Persons: Chip, Prometheus, Steve Cohen, Edwin Díaz Organizations: New York Mets, Mets, Washington Nationals
The misery index is a crude but effective way to measure the health of the economy. And that misery index number doesn’t even begin to capture the strength of the American economy right now. There are a zillion positive indicators right now, as the folks in the administration will be quick to tell you. In the four years of Donald Trump’s administration, spending on manufacturing facilities grew by 5 percent. During the first two years of Biden’s administration, such investment more than doubled and about 800,000 manufacturing jobs were created.
Persons: you’re, Ronald Reagan, George W, Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Biden, Donald Trump’s Organizations: Conference Board Locations: U.S
So these elite places become these little islands where rich people pass down their advantages to their kids. Like everyone else, by today’s standards, I wouldn’t qualify for any of the elite schools. And yet in those days, the University of Chicago, where I ended up going, admitted 70 percent of the applicants. The process is not only divisive but doesn’t give people later in life a fair chance to alter the trajectory of their life. They should look at their grades, they should look at their test scores, but they should also look at their resilience.
Persons: We’ve, I’ve, Richard Kahlenberg, he’s Organizations: University of Chicago, Harvard, University of North Locations: Philadelphia, West Virginia, New Orleans, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Manhattan, University of North Carolina
Opinion | The Age of Spectacle Is Upon Us
  + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The Dodgers were wrong to honor a group that dishonors other people’s uniforms, and the sacred commitments those uniforms represent. My real beef is that they should be in the baseball business, not the culture war business. There is the state, the church, the family, the schools, science, business, the trades, etc. In our country, the business sphere has sometimes tried to take over the education sphere — to run schools like a business. You open your email and find corporations taking political stances on issues that have nothing to do with their core businesses.
Persons: they’ve, that’s, Abraham Kuyper, Kuyper Organizations: Dodgers, ? Society
America Is An Island Where the Rules Never Changepick the one piece of culture thatbest captures the country. If we’re going to understand America, let’s dive right into the dark pools of social pain that underlie our bitterness and division. Listen to “Dark Was theNight, Cold Was the Ground”by Blind Willie Johnson. It opens:Dark was the night, and cold the groundOn which the Lord was laid;His sweat like drops of blood ran down;In agony he prayed. The night in question is a cruel ordeal that anticipates the light and warmth of the coming dawn.
Persons: topick, Let’s, Willie Johnson’s, ” Johnson, you’re, Blind Willie Johnson, Thomas Haweis, Albert Murray, Murray, Black Locations: America
Opinion | I Won’t Let Donald Trump Invade My Brain
  + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Over the decades, I’ve built up certain expectations about how the world works and how people behave. And yet I’ve found that Donald Trump has confounded me at every turn. I was shocked at how thuggishly Trump behaved in that first debate with Joe Biden in 2020. As the Jan. 6 committee hearings progressed, I was stunned to find out just how aggressively Trump had worked to overthrow the election. And yet I can’t quite feel ashamed of my perpetual naïveté toward Donald Trump.
Persons: I’ve, Donald Trump, thuggishly Trump, Joe Biden, Trump, flagrantly
I’ve long been a fan of No Labels, the organization that works to reduce political polarization and Washington gridlock. That project is a $70 million effort to secure ballot access for a potential third presidential candidate in 2024. Today, they argue, the electorate is roughly evenly split among those who lean Democratic, those who lean Republican and the unaffiliated. Fifty-nine percent of voters surveyed in that No Labels analysis said if that happened, they would consider voting for a third moderate candidate. If the No Labels candidate won just 61 percent of this disaffected group and the remainder was split evenly between two other candidates, he or she would capture a plurality of the electorate and could win the presidency.
Persons: Washington gridlock, I’ve, Joe Biden, Donald Trump Organizations: Washington, Democrats, White Locations: America
Opinion | The College Admissions Process: No Easy Answers
  + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
This would better justify the large public subsidies that these institutions receive. But lower-income students need more financial aid to attend, and every dollar spent on aid can’t be spent on other things valued by faculty, administrators and students who don’t need financial aid. Many of these selective schools currently actually reject talented students based solely on this financial need. Catharine B. HillNew YorkThe writer, president emerita of Vassar College, is managing director of Ithaka S + R, which offers strategic advice for academic and cultural institutions. Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years.”
Persons: can’t, Catharine B, Ithaka, David Brooks, Adam Grant, Organizations: Hill, Vassar College Locations: York
Opinion | Let’s Smash the College Admissions Process
  + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Within days or weeks, the Supreme Court is going to render a decision on the future of affirmative action in higher ed. If things go as expected, conservatives will be cheering as these policies are struck down — and progressives will be wailing. But maybe we can all take this moment to reimagine the college admissions process itself, which has morphed into one of the truly destructive institutions in American society. The modern college admissions era was launched over half a century ago with the best of intentions — to turn finishing schools for the Protestant establishment into talent factories for all comers. In that same year, students from the top income quintile were 16 times more numerous at the University of North Carolina, a state school, than students from the bottom quintile.
Persons: , Raj Chetty Organizations: Ivy League, University of North Locations: University of North Carolina
Opinion | What Our Toxic Culture Does to the Young
  + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Typical members of that generation wanted to enjoy their freedom, so many put off marriage and parenting until their late 20s or their 30s. They adopted what some researchers call the “slow life strategy,” postponing the common milestones of adulthood until later in life. As the psychologist Jean Twenge shows in her lavishly informative new book, “Generations,” the members of Gen Z are now practicing the slow life strategy with a vengeance. Members of Gen Z are, for example, content to get their driver’s licenses later than earlier generations. By 2021, only 15 percent of the Gen Z ninth graders had.
Joe Biden built his 2020 presidential campaign around the idea that “we’re in a battle for the soul of America.” I thought it was a marvelous slogan because it captured the idea that we’re in the middle of a moral struggle over who we are as a nation. But Biden is not using the word in a religious sense, but in a secular one. He is saying that people and nations have a moral essence, a soul. Whether you believe in God or don’t believe in God is not my department. But I do ask you to believe that every person you meet has this moral essence, this quality of soul.
Opinion | The Flight to Red States
  + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the Editor:Re “People Are Fleeing to Red States. Are They Better?,” by David Brooks (column, April 14):Mr. Brooks writes about why there has been a dramatic population shift from blue to red states. As one who moved from the New York City area to a purple suburb of blue Charleston, S.C., I save a fortune in state, local and property taxes. South Carolina doesn’t tax Social Security benefits, which are outrageously taxed by the federal government and most blue states. And my property taxes are about 90 percent lower than they would be in the New York City area.
Opinion | The Power of American Capitalism
  + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The millennial and Gen Z generations are practically defined by a story of economic hardship. Many people believe that the coming generations will not enjoy the same living standards as their parents. “If anything, the reverse is true.”My point is not that American capitalism is perfect. For reasons deeply rooted in our culture, the American brand of capitalism has always been tilted toward dynamism, with freer markets and smaller welfare states. Between 1990 and 2019, American social spending rose from 14 percent of G.D.P.
A Democratic think tank has grown increasingly alarmed by an effort to field a third-party candidate in 2024. The "No Labels" effort is "going to hurt Biden and help Trump," Third Way's Jim Kessler told Insider. "I've been tracking what No Labels is doing, and at a certain point concluded, this is real and it's going to hurt Biden and help Trump," Kessler said. Of 23 states they say its will win, 19 of those states Biden won in 2020, he said. "But we know who they're going to nominate.
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