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Friday, January 16

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How the NBA Learned to Love Losing

The NBA keeps trying to fix tanking. It’s no longer a scandal—it’s a skill.

How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation

The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike. What are we all doing there?

Podcast: Who We Are by City Journal
Available this week: "Writer's Diary" by Matthew Gasda
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Essential Reading

One of the greatest weeks of my life was the week David McCullough came to teach a one-credit course at Hillsdale College in 2006.
At the heart of the Western intellectual tradition is the claim that the liberal arts aim to make a man free.

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How the NBA Learned to Love Losing

The NBA keeps trying to fix tanking. It’s no longer a scandal—it’s a skill.

How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation

The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike. What are we all doing there?

Essential Reading

One of the greatest weeks of my life was the week David McCullough came to teach a one-credit course at Hillsdale College in 2006.
At the heart of the Western intellectual tradition is the claim that the liberal arts aim to make a man free.

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'The Chronology of Water' Is an Extraordinary Début

Kristen Stewart’s first feature, based on a memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, packs great emotional power into its boldly original form.

Prediction Markets Turned Life Into a Dystopian Experiment

What are Polymarket and Kalshi? Why are they taking over the world? And is there anything stopping actors on these platforms from exploiting almost everything and everyone?

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