‘The Jay-Z allegation as soon as once more reveals a tradition of impunity in hip-hop’
Tayo Bero at The Guardian
Jay Z’s response to a rape allegation is a “beautiful show of the tradition of silence and complicity in hip-hop which continues to hurt girls and ladies,” says Tayo Bero. It “smacked of the smug overconfidence of somebody who has operated with god-like standing for therefore lengthy that they do not know what the principles even are.” It’s “essential for victims to know that there are cures to the codes of silence, misogyny and hurt that thrive in hip-hop.”
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‘Learn this earlier than shopping for that online game’
Simon Parkin at The New York Occasions
Folks at the moment are “drawn to video video games that operate extra like social media platforms than discrete interactive tales,” and there’s an “particularly shut hyperlink between engagement and economics in video video games,” says Simon Parkin. Recreation design is “usually now not predominantly the duty of crafting challenges that elicit pleasure, delight and shock,” however is “primarily the job of constructing machines to maintain gamers engrossed and spending, in lots of circumstances, by grinding out repetitive duties.”
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‘Preserve the federal authorities in DC’
Craig S. Lerner at The American Conservative
Relocating “federal authorities employees to the hinterlands is neither a brand new concept nor one more likely to obtain its goals,” says Craig S. Lerner. Opening “authorities workplaces outdoors the Beltway will end in a bigger, extra entrenched forms — the other of what many reformers need.” It’s “not clear what sensible profit is achieved when an economist designing ethanol subsidies is transferred to an workplace nearer to farmers.” If a “authorities group is doing one thing dangerous, inefficiency is preferable.”
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‘Folks thought “A Charlie Brown Christmas” would fail. Sincerity powered its success.’
Stephen Lind on the Los Angeles Occasions
It’s “laborious to think about the vacations with out ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas,'” and “towards all the chances, it grew to become a basic,” says Stephen Lind. This system “turned ‘Peanuts’ from a well-liked cartoon right into a multimedia empire — not as a result of it was flashy or adopted the principles, however as a result of it was honest.” It “resonates throughout demographics and ideologies,” and “some followers discover consolation within the present’s light message of religion, whereas others embrace it in a purely secular approach.”
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