Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts and the limits of literary fiction’s obsession with life online. February 4, 2021 Over a century ago, E.M. Forster wrote his memorable phrase “Only connect!” into Howards End, reemphasizing it as the novel’s epigraph. The phrase might seem quaint or even corrupted today, when most “connecting” is done online—you could plausibly…
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A proposal to deploy so-called “spy planes” over St. Louis is meeting fierce resistance from city residents and activists—but local politicians may approve it anyway when the bill comes up for a vote this week, despite concerns over privacy and civil liberties. First introduced by Alderman Tom Oldenburg in December 2020, Board Bill 200 would…
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The government is using a pliant media and its social-media warriors to paint protesting farmers as secessionists. February 4, 2021 New Delhi—Hundreds of thousands of India’s farmers have been camping on the roads leading to New Delhi in an unprecedented protest that has lasted more than two months but has not been given its proportional…