* “The widowhood effect: What it’s like to lose a spouse in your 30s.” Brutal, moving, and you may cry. Consider yourself warned.
* Tim Cook alleges that great desktop Macs are in the works. I’ll believe it when I see them.
* To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power.
* “How Silicon Valley Nails Silicon Valley,” unexpectedly hilarious.
* Campus Identity Politics Is Dooming Liberal Causes, according to Mark Lilla, who you may remember from The Shipwrecked Mind.
* “How Amazon’s problems with cheap knockoffs got real.” I’ve become much more sensitized to this issue and less likely to buy non-books from Amazon for precisely this reason.
* “World War III, by mistake.” See also “Trump fears and the nuclear apocalypse.”
* “Automakers Prepare for an America That’s Over the Whole Car Thing.” The bizarre thing to me is that Americans ever loved cars in the first place. See also “Cars and generational shift” and “Owning vs sharing: Don’t get caught in the ugly middle.”
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Thank you for the link to Christina’s story. I too, am an early widow, and she wrote the story well.
Although I had written all of my life, I began to write publicly after my husband died. She is so right – there are no mourning rituals for us any more. I wrote about that here:
https://theimpetuarian.com/2014/08/08/she-doesnt-mourn-well/
Best wishes in 2017.
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The article on identity politics was most enlightening. I have to admit that I’ve used the word “academic” to denigrate of an idea, that is one that is not connected to any reality.
Likewise, people distrust the so called “experts” as the perception is that they are espousing an ideology rather than any true expertise.
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