Legislators insist that children go down with their sinking ship.
The American Mind Podcast: The Roundtable Episode #160
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The Magic Campus | The Roundtable Ep. 160
Peachy Keenan joins the editors to discuss the tweet that broke the internet: an anecdote about the effects of racial preferences in admission turned into a Rorschach test and a celebration parallax. It’s not happening, and it’s good that it is! Then, a close reading of the new TikTok filter that confronts users with a vision of their younger selves, forcing many of them to confront the reality of passing time and human mortality. Plus: our editors pick their favorite pieces from the site this week.
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