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  Rod Dreher derides the Enlightenment, secularism, and the modern world—and his writing “is a useful indication of just how angry and pessimistic even the most thoughtful conservatives have become,” Robert F. Worth reports.https://lnkd.in/euEFZuGvThough his concerns are more religious than political, Dreher’s ideas about the decline of Christianity in Europe “are now becoming something like the official view of the Trump administration.” Worth spoke with Dreher to understand how he became a key influence on today's conservative movement.Read more:https://lnkd.in/euEFZuGv📸: Erika Nina Suárez

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  Mixed-gender events at the Olympics have been growing in number—and these team programs may be doing more to raise the profile of female athletes than women’s events alone, Christie Aschwanden argues.https://lnkd.in/ern4Wb7zWomen’s sports “tend to attract far fewer spectators than men’s sports do,” Aschwanden writes. Events such as mixed-gender relays can help bridge this gap, Cam Smith, who is making his Olympic debut on Team USA’s mixed-gender skimo relay—a sport that will appear at the Olympics for the first time this year—told her. In events that feature both men and women, he said, viewers are positioned to watch everyone compete.Read more about how the Olympics are leaning more into these events, and the challenges many women athletes still face:https://lnkd.in/ern4Wb7z

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  Start assigning college students the hard readings again, Walt Hunter writes—you’ll learn something along the way.https://lnkd.in/eeXK8chw“I’ve taught for nearly two decades, but last fall I was worried in a way I’d never been before,” Hunter writes. He was concerned by anecdotes and statistics about the decline of reading, his own raddled attention span, and the apparent inevitability of AI-generated essays. “And yet my fears that students might refuse to read helped clarify my approach … I would teach the students what I was starting to miss myself: tarrying with an author beyond his best-known works, developing a relationship with a novelist across wildly different novels.”“Two things became clear in the early weeks of class. First, the students were reading. They were reading everything, or most of it,” Hunter writes. “Second, they were experiencing life in a way that was not easy outside the class and its assignments. They were expected—required—to give huge chunks of time to an activity, reading, that was not monetizing their attention in real time. They had, in effect, taken back their lives, for an hour or two each day. It turned out that American literature, which so often flirts with utopian fantasies of regaining control—hello, ‘Walden’!—could do precisely that.”Hunter changed the way he teaches—he axed take-home essays for example, so they would have more time to read, replacing them with in-class, timed “flash essays”; he changed his assignment prompts, and more. Why did the students start reading? “Because I asked them to, and told them it was worth it,” Hunter writes. “I said that time was precious, and that we needed to take some of it back for ourselves. So we did.”https://lnkd.in/eeXK8chw🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Getty.

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  The geopolitical divide between the U.S. and China has made Canadians and Europeans look like children in a divorce, shuttling between “feuding parents, pleasing neither, and risking retaliation if they take sides,” Simon Shuster and Vivian Salama report.

  Europe and Canada Are Like the Kids in an Ugly Divorce theatlantic.com

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  Lots of people casually say they “like” or “don’t like” kids. But discussing children in these terms reduces them to objects, and shuts down conversations we ought to be having about their place in society, Stephanie H. Murray wrote in 2025.https://lnkd.in/eg6er7tCChildren certainly can disrupt otherwise tranquil environments by, say, crying in the seat behind you on a plane or talking more loudly than social norms would consider polite. But “don’t like,” language relegates children to the same tier as cars or handbags—and allows people to dismiss them as a matter worthy of their concern, Murray argues: “If kids are commodities, then responsibility for them falls on the owner and the owner alone.” Most of the time, Murray believes, people who use reductive language when talking about children “are attempting to express more complex emotions in language that feels intuitive”: “For example, they might be using ‘I don’t like kids’ as shorthand for why they don’t want to become a parent—or regret becoming one.”“The interests of parents and the child-free are intimately bound together,” Murray continues. “But as soon as someone who is ambivalent about children declares that they ‘don’t like’ kids, a wedge is driven between parents and nonparents.” This applies to other pressing concerns about child-rearing, including conversations about parental policy: “Parent or not, whether you ‘like kids’ or not, decisions about policy at some point wind up affecting all of us,” Murray writes. “And discussing these concerns would be easier if we could dispense with the ‘don’t like’ language and strive to use words that reflect children’s humanity.”Read more:https://lnkd.in/eg6er7tC🎨: Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: csa-archive / Getty.

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  Trump overperformed with young voters in 2024. But, Sarah Longwell writes, the focus groups that she runs show that these voters are souring on the president. “They notice when a politician like Trump promises to lower prices, and then doesn’t deliver”:https://lnkd.in/edAGNbDs

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  Chatbots may feel a lot more powerful than just a few years ago—but they pale in comparison to a new generation of AI tools, Lila Shroff argues:

  The Post-Chatbot Era Has Begun theatlantic.com

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  See members of Germany’s speed-skating team moving together in tight formation in today’s Winter Olympics photo of the day:

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  “Policy makers and philanthropists aren’t particularly focused on first jobs,” writes Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America—but if we want to fix society’s problems, we need to encourage people to work on these issues early in their careers, so they can grow into leaders who solve them:https://lnkd.in/eRBvmXCH“Research confirms that working close to the roots of social issues early in one’s career fundamentally reshapes a person’s beliefs and life trajectory,” Kopp explains. At Teach for America, for example, those who had taught in under-resourced classrooms were more likely to view inequity as a systemic issue rather than the result of personal actions. And at the Peace Corps, alumni have reported greater acceptance of diversity and a sense of shared humanity that altered their understanding of justice.But prospective corporate employers pay colleges thousands of dollars a year to promote themselves to students through career-services offices. Despite their mission statements about developing civic leaders, few schools push back against this corporate career funnel. Plus, some students “feel they can’t afford to pursue less immediately lucrative careers,” Kopp writes. At universities such as Yale, Harvard and Princeton, the number of students who go into finance, consulting, and tech rises every year.However, “when students were offered a prestigious alternative to the corporate track, they revealed themselves to be more idealistic and civically committed than people had assumed,” Kopp writes.“Colleges should live up to their civic missions by guiding students to take a first job in the public interest,” Kopp continues at the link in our bio. “We should all help young people see that their generation’s first jobs predict the future—not only of their careers but of their world.”https://lnkd.in/eRBvmXCH🎨: Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic

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  Mixed-gender events may do more to raise the profile of female athletes than women’s events alone, Christie Aschwanden argues:

  This Olympics Is Leaning Hard Into Mixed-Gender Events theatlantic.com

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