Readers respond to a column by David Brooks, “The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds.” Also: Republican election stunts.
The first step is to understand how these attacks on critical thinking take place.

America, the Juvenile

The Trump administration is a regime of troubled grade-schoolers.
Kiggans has not, however, chosen to remain silent about the shutdown. She and the president have unfairly placed the blame on ...
In the quiet corridors of the afterlife, Julius Nyerere was sipping ethereal tea when the evening news from Earth floated ...
The current news cycle dependably includes stories about the war in Ukraine and occasional updates on Harvard University and ...
It’s no secret that social media exists largely in the hands of younger people. Using social media in political campaigns means potential exposure to 78 percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 29, as found ...
Discharge put out a song years ago called “Free Speech For the Dumb” whose lyrics were the title as if making a point in the least subtle way possible, namely that free speech mostly enables idiots to ...
The S&P 500 rose 0.2% and pulled closer to its all-time high set last week, even though the majority of stocks in the index ...
The EU’s strategy for generational renewal, presented on Tuesday 21 October,  lays out ambitious plans to double the share of young farmers in Europe by 2040. Here’s what it promises, what’s missing, ...
Their business quickly outgrew their original space, but the team was unable to terminate their lease, and that location sat empty. After Sonderhaus hosted a pop-up event in Salt Lake City one day and ...