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Apr 16, 2024 | thespectator.com | Paul du Quenoy |Roger Kimball |Dylan Neri |TechIf Apple declines

“I am enormously sad that we have students who are so rude as to come into my home, in my backyard, and use this social occasion for their political agenda,” said hapless University of California Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

Apr 16, 2024 | thespectator.com | Roger Kimball |Dylan Neri |TechIf Apple declines |Matthew Lynn

Among the many great lines in T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, is this mournful observation from “The Dry Salvages,” the third of the bunch: “We had the experience but missed the meaning.” How much happens to us that we only half register or undergo without really twigging its significance? One example that is both pedestrian and historical: the criminal trial in Manhattan of Donald Trump.

Apr 16, 2024 | thespectator.com | Dylan Neri |TechIf Apple declines |Matthew Lynn |Liz Truss

Cocaine Mitch may be onto something. Last week, the senator called on his colleagues to pass a bill banning TikTok unless it is sold by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. Now ex-TikTok employees are coming forward with stories detailing the company’s entanglement with China. According to eleven former employees interviewed by Fortune, TikTok has deep ties to Beijing through ByteDance which the company has tried to conceal.

Apr 16, 2024 | thespectator.com | Dylan Neri |Matthew Lynn |Liz Truss |TechIf Apple declines

The question of why things fall has puzzled our species since we crawled out from the darkness of our primitive ignorance. Aristotle was the first to offer a serious theory. He proposed that each of the four elements (earth, air, fire, water) had a natural place to which it innately wanted to return. Fire and air rise because their place is in the heavens, whereas earth and water return to the Earth.