* Israeli vaccination data shows the mRNA vaccines perform incredibly well. The end is in sight.
* “I Tracked Down The Girls Who Bullied Me As A Kid. Here’s What They Had To Say.” If I taught high school I’d assign this essay to students.
* “The Activists Who Embrace Nuclear Power,” in the New Yorker, and perhaps the canonical-but-accessible article on this subject for the skeptical. Michael Shellenberger is good on Twitter, too. This is perhaps indicative of modern culture and problems: “Nuclear power was associated with radiation, which, like pesticides, could threaten that web.” The phrase “associated with:” we’re thinking about metaphor, not about data.
* Description of parent pushing back against “critical race theory” (CRT) in their kid’s school.
* On how campus administrators push universities to act like corporations, among other things. Thefire.org has many interesting takes on culture and academia.
* “The cultural ‘myths’ that affect parenting:” not a great title and some flaws, but overall compatible with The Anthropology of Childhood.
* On the peculiarities of modern censorship culture, but also the history of censorship.
* “Story Time With Titania McGrath,” extremely amusing.
* The Guardian‘s middlebrow take on “sending nudes.”
* The Framework laptop: a truly modular and modern laptop, it would seem, although I’d think they should offer it pre-installed with Linux. Maybe their contract with Microsoft forbids that. Still, an admirable effort.
* “Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State.” And yet widespread condemnation of Disney and others remains curiously absent, almost as if parochial concerns suck up much of the cultural air in the U.S.
* “The Republican Party Is Now in Its End Stages:” “one hopes,” I would add, but I’m not sure the argument is true.
