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How artificial intelligence can save your life
News, David Brooks, Published on 26/06/2019
» Artificial intelligence is by turns terrifying, overhyped, hard to understand and just plain awesome.
The sexual politics of 2016 and redefining masculinity
News, David Brooks, Published on 30/03/2016
» In the middle of the Civil War, a colonel named Robert McAllister from the 11th Regiment of New Jersey tried to improve the moral fibre of his men. A Presbyterian railroad contractor in private life, he lobbied and preached against profanity, drinking, prostitution and gambling. Some of the line officers in the regiment, from less genteel backgrounds, rebelled.
Universities more professional, but somewhat empty
News, David Brooks, Published on 07/10/2015
» Many American universities were founded as religious institutions, explicitly designed to cultivate their students' spiritual and moral natures. But over the course of the 20th century they became officially or effectively secular.