The Narthex
Passive Consumption of Fake Rises and Falls
Human suffering is a punchline in cyberspace
By Jason Morgan | November 24th 2025 12:01 PMTime magazine fulminated this month about the rise of the trillionaires. In October, the Brookings Institute deep-dived into the rise of stablecoins. The Economist gave us their thoughts on the rise of singlehood. Straight Arrow News had a think piece on the rise of “Kirkifying” in the wake of the…
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But the war for privacy, and thus for democracy, continues
By Sabino Paciolla | October 14th 2025 11:00 AMWriting in the October 9 Die Welt, Andreas Rosenvelder observed that then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt said something remarkable in a 2009 interview: "If there's something you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't do it.” The advice seems harmless, like that of an older brother, but it's also the…
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