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Welcome to Secular Sharia
Drunks, cheaters, and Karens beware: TikTok is the new home for public floggings.
River Page
This Week in Canada: Why a Social Media Ban Isn’t the Answer
Carney’s latest attack on the technology industry might feel good, but it won’t solve the online problems that actually hurt teenagers.
Rupa Subramanya
The Death of History
The tools that once exposed and debunked Holocaust denial are powerless against AI and the algorithm. Niall Ferguson and John-Clark Levin ask: Is there…
Niall Ferguson and John-Clark Levin
Clavicular Is Israelmaxxing
About six months ago, Jewish leaders nationwide condemned the Gen-Z icon for partying to ‘Heil Hitler.’ Now he’s in Tel Aviv to ‘have a good time.’
Olivia Reingold
How Our Culture Became ‘Cult-Like’
Luke Burgis on how to build a ‘solid self’ in a world of mimetic desire.
Suzy Weiss
1HR 12M
‘Love Island’ Fans Are Awful
The contestants are young, dumb, and unbelievably hot. Yet spectators demand that none of them ever, ever made a teenage mistake on the internet.
Kara Kennedy
The SAT Is Back. But Is There a Better Alternative?
Jeremy Tate thinks the SAT is way too easy—so he invented the Classic Learning Test. He says he’s ‘in a battle to save Western civilization.’
Maya Sulkin
How to Raise ‘AI-Native’ Kids
They’re vibe coding with the kids on Saturday mornings and using a bot as a 24-7 family therapist. Meet the parents who have seen the future and want…
Evan Gardner
The Making of a Teenage Terror Suspect
Extremists know which kids to target online: young, male, and isolated. An Ohio family never imagined their autistic son would be one of them.
Maya Sulkin
Watch: How Discord Radicalized Our Son
Maya Sulkin investigates how an Ohio teenager was raided by the FBI after he was targeted by jihadis online.
Maya Sulkin
17M
I Gave My Kid a Screen-Free Summer—and You Can Too
After years of nightly fights over YouTube and Netflix with my 8-year-old daughter, I decided to hide every screen in our house for the summer. It…
Michaeleen Doucleff, PhD
Eat Thy Neighbor’s Sourdough
I went deep into the world of ‘cottage food.’ Plus: A conversation with Freya India about how the internet ruined girlhood—and if we can ever get it…
Suzy Weiss
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