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Daily Archives: July 18, 2026
Five MIT-related accounts
Interesting Read
via The New York Times:
Trump Isn’t Choosing a Running Mate. He’s Casting a Co-Star.
by Ramin Setoodeh
published on June 17, 2024
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Quote, Unquote
A study analyzing 236,000 responses to the American Time Use Survey found that the proportion of Americans who read for pleasure on any given day fell from 28 percent in 2004 to 16 percent in 2023. (The study looked at people who had read a book, magazine, or newspaper; listened to an audiobook; or read an e-book.)
~ Rose Horowitch via The Atlantic
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Film History 101:
Saturday Night Fever – Opening Scene
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Comedy Break
Logan LeDouche Introduces His Favorite Hydration Drink – South Park
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Midday Music Fix
Pat Benatar – Fire And Ice
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Campus Life at the
Barnard College
Quote, Unquote
Starting a new form of government at the close of an era, as the founders of the European Union tried to do, is not necessarily a doomed project. The United States might be called the last nation that was established before the onset of the Industrial Revolution. But you cannot really have an overarching federal government, such as the United States has, unless people are content to see the states lose power to the capital over the long term. Americans have made their peace with this, although it required a civil war and a good deal of other violence to bring consensus.
~ Christopher Caldwell via The New York Times
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