Poland, News, Conversation, Sabbath, Cycling - Five Things - Issue #324

Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. Recent events in the United States follow a pattern Europeans know all too well.

News is all about sensational, exceptional, negative, and current events. And those five words capture precisely the problem with news.

Our conversational skills may have evolutionary roots.

Don’t become your own pharaoh: The Sabbath is the most radical commandment in a time of total work.

Of course it is.

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