Posts by Swedan Margen
“The Drama” Is One Long Troll
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are charismatic as a couple confronting the fallout from an appalling revelation, but the film itself seems engineered solely to stimulate discourse. Source link
Read MoreIran attempting cyberattacks against critical U.S. infrastructure, officials say
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies are “urgently warning” private-sector companies nationwide that Iranian actors are conducting cyber operations targeting critical U.S. infrastructure, a campaign that has already caused disruptions, according to a government notice. The activity comes as President Trump threatened Iran’s infrastructure, particularly its bridges and power plants. Iran’s attack targeted products by Rockwell Automation’s Allen-Bradley,…
Read MoreA First Step Toward Shrinking Government | National Review
Following the Trump administration’s cuts, the federal government employs the lowest percentage of U.S. workers since World War II. Source link
Read MoreThe Paradoxes—and Problems—of the Family-Vlogging Industry
“Like, Follow, Subscribe” is decently reported, if clunkily written; it lacks the legal and philosophical acumen of Leah A. Plunkett’s “Sharenthood” or the sociological insights that Kathryn Jezer-Morton brings to her studies of momfluencers. The strongest and most original passages of Latifi’s book, however brief, are devoted to her survey participants, who say that clicking…
Read MoreThe Iranian Sharia-Supremacist Regime and ‘Civilian’ Infrastructure | National Review
There are no ‘civilians,’ in the Western sense, in Iran, and the IRGC uses the infrastructure for its war aims. Source link
Read MoreIn Marie NDiaye’s Spellbinding New Novel, Witchcraft Stays in the Family
Witchcraft was traditionally a form of occult knowledge: esoteric, hidden, available only to initiates. Now, though, with the widespread circulation of magic manuals, grimoires, and related compendia—with the recording, on paper, of words, spells, histories, stories—witchcraft has taken an irreversible step into the exoteric realm. The chain through which it once passed, from trusted person…
Read MoreWill Biblical Womanhood Box You In or Set You Free?
Twenty years ago, Hatmaker was much like Waters: a young pastor’s wife raising three little kids while writing her first books on Biblical wisdom for Christian women. She practiced the same schedule sorcery as Waters, writing from 8:15 A.M. to 12:15 P.M., three days a week, plus occasionally during nap time. In “Make Over,” from…
Read MoreWe Are All Constantly Mutating—and That’s a Good Thing
Genetic research has been complicating the idea of the genome as a determinative blueprint. Source link
Read MoreMaybe Society Should Go to the Dogs | National Review
Making the case for ‘man’s best friend.’ Source link
Read MoreThirty Years After Welfare Reform, It’s Time for the Next Generation of State-Led Solutions | National Review
The problem with today’s safety net isn’t intent; it’s design. State leadership would help fix it. Source link
Read MoreA Malaysian Menu Laced with the Flavors of Brooklyn
The best thing on the menu at Kelang, a Malaysian restaurant in Greenpoint that opened in December, is a puffy paratha on a bed of spiced red-lentil dal, topped with creamy Italian stracciatella cheese. Depending on who you are, where you’re from, and how rigid you are in your notions of gastronomic interpolation, this will…
Read MoreHe Wrote a Book About Interviewing. Here’s His Interview.
I want to be able to speak freely, and I want you to be able to speak freely, and in order to do that I think you should have more freedom than usual to take stuff off the record. My journalistic-ethics justification is that, because we know each other, I don’t want to take something…
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