Taki Taki

The rise of the new autocracy

Our Silicon Valley overlords are ‘curating’ the news in order to cement their powers. [P_Wei] 
issue 29 January 2022

Gstaad

Dinner parties are no longer verboten here, so I posed a question to some youngsters my son had over: did any of them feel morally entitled to their privilege? The problem with talking about privilege is that the discussion goes around in circles, original thoughts get lost, and what emerges says more about those conversing than about the subject at hand.

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