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What George Orwell Wrote About the Dangers of Nationalism
On facts, fallacies, and power. By Kristian Williams.
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Disarming the Weapons of Mass Distraction
Attention is a limited resource: to pay attention to one thing requires us to withdraw it from others. But in today's pervasive digital culture, technologies are transforming our patterns of attention, pursuing “those slivers of our unharvested awareness,” as Tim Wu puts it. Digital technology has thus provided consumer capitalism with its most powerful tools yet. Given current political anxieties about social mobility and inequality, how do we foster this most crucial and basic skill: sustaining attention? By Madeleine Bunting.