Archive - The Way We Live Now

On The Degrading Effects of Life Online

How social media makes us worse people

Published on After Babel • May 9

“What ever happened to femininity?”

And other questions from the sauna

May 6 •

Karen Christensen

April 2025

The importance of beauty on Earth Day

Depriving people of beauty is one reason our world is sadder and sicker than it should be

Apr 22 •

Karen Christensen

Why Harvard matters: A Cartography of Resistance with Keith Grint

Leadership, management, and command

Apr 17 •

Karen Christensen

49:28

A return to China and to Dunhuang

The Silk Road in history, memory, and our common future

Apr 17 •

Karen Christensen

Is the American Age over?

The end of the "greatest country on earth"

Apr 4 •

Karen Christensen

You & the AI piracy scandal

Have your books & articles been pirated & then used by Meta/Facebook?

Apr 2 •

Karen Christensen

Billionaire reboot: Starbucks as Third Place

3x-CEO Schultz has change of heart

Apr 1 •

Karen Christensen

March 2025

Life in public: a continuing affair

Defending democracy requires vigilance and a lot of conversation

Mar 27

#Thanksfortyping: The making of Ted Hughes

Biographer Carl Rollyson on Sylvia Plath's effort to make a man to her measure

Mar 25 •

Karen Christensen

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55:21

Worst cabinet since Caligula

Notes from the once-friendly North

Mar 23

Better any day now

A lot of us are wondering why everything is still so damned hard.

Published on The Way We Live Now • Mar 15

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