Screens and social media addictions are changing, perhaps irreparably damaging our brains. It’s a view often associated with Susan Greenfield, the British peer, scientist and brain expert who, as I recall at one lecture I heard her give, pits “people of the book” against “people of the screen”. Shorter attention spans, an unwillingness or incapability […]
The centre cannot hold (or why public purpose is a social muscle)
What is going on? Donald Trump is going to win the Republican nomination and might become the next President of the United States. Bernie Sanders, a septuagenarian senator from nowhere is testing Hillary Clinton to the limit, and perhaps beyond and, in the process, garnering small armies of support from young and old. In the […]
