Spotify and the death of discovery
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The service’s algorithms have shaped a generation of listeners who are defined by attention deficit disorder and a fear of complexity and difficulty
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The service’s algorithms have shaped a generation of listeners who are defined by attention deficit disorder and a fear of complexity and difficulty
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Would generations of Americans weaned on high-fructose corn syrup be able to march much further than the fridge?
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Critics who only write about shallow subjects will only produce shallow writing
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A college in Oklahoma has turned academia into an Atwoodian nightmare
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The shrill tone of online debate makes 2008 seem like a century ago
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Vladimir Putin understands how most culture is lowbrow and inauthentic
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Won’t somebody please think of the children!
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It is a morbid sign for a democracy when the electorate chooses superheroes to do its bidding, rather than politicians
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The company is now just another dreary enforcer of online norms
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His new job at H&M is hypocrisy on steroids
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Digital media downsizing has as much to do with ideology as economic pressures
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The openness of the American internet is what makes it so dangerous
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More than snobby Washington ever will
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Self-care can’t heal the nation, but cigarettes might
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Decades after Dallas, the Dems keep drinking from the poisoned Kennedy chalice
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The kind of old-fashioned humanism espoused by Harper Lee is being left behind and replaced with radical, uncompromising demands
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Isn’t there a sinister side to an army of 17,000 citizen activists looking for damaging intel on Republicans?
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The celebrated writer made social activism a lot less dangerous to the ruling class
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The Facebook CEO is enthralled by the power ancient tyrants wielded
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The entrepreneur only seems like an oddball because culture is so homogenised