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Believe Your Own Eyes

Jul 19, 2024 | portside.org | Tyler Harper

Believe Your Own Eyes Published July 19, 2024 Last night, NBC aired an interview that Lester Holt conducted with Joe Biden, the most recent in a series of unscripted events designed to ease voters’ worries after the president’s disastrous June 27 debate. It is hard to imagine this latest performance doing that. Biden was defensive and rambling.
LINKS - May 29th, 2024

May 29, 2024 | ragazzo.substack.com | Tyler Harper |Kate Graham-Shaw |Chelsea Fisher |Claire Porter

Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human . LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments. By Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic (which ironically enough just signed a deal with OpenAI)“Hypothetical AI dating concierges sound silly, and they are not exactly humanity’s greatest threat.
The Church of Human Resources

Apr 15, 2024 | jacobin.com | Tyler Harper

The human resources professionals shall inherit the earth. That is the message of The HR (R)Evolution, a book-length human resources manifesto and one of the most truly mind-bending cultural documents of recent memory. Coauthored by Alan Watkins, a medical doctor turned TED-talking “human performance” shaman, and Nick Dalton, former executive vice president of HR at […]
"More" is Less

Mar 2, 2024 | wisdomofcrowds.live | Christine Emba |Tyler Harper

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. A recently-published memoir making headlines suggests a trend: Polyamory is going mainstream among high-status Americans. Culture critic and environmental studies professor Tyler Austin Harper joins Christine and Shadi to make sense of this fad, and explain why it’s both an upper-class luxury and a raw deal. Along the way they discuss happiness, self-expression, race, love, self-immolation, parenting, and a better way to live.
American Workers Are Staying Put

Jan 9, 2024 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Tyler Harper

The “Great Resignation” is solidly in the rearview mirror. Why were so many people quitting, anyway? First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:Staying PutAfter a stretch of runaway quitting over the past few years—you might’ve heard it dubbed the “Great Resignation”—American workers are largely staying put. In July, the rates of American workers quitting their jobs normalized to about where they were before the pandemic.
'How Much Blood Is Your Fun Worth?'

Oct 27, 2023 | rsn.org | Tyler Harper

I saw the gun-violence epidemic—and my relationship to it as a gun owner—as an abstraction. Then a mass shooting happened in the little city where I work. During my first semester of teaching while in grad school, I made a habit of showing up to my classroom half an hour early.
Why I Own Guns and Why I’m Part of the Problem

Oct 26, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Tyler Harper

During my first semester of teaching while in grad school, I made a habit of showing up to my classroom half an hour early. I was green as a sapling and felt wholly unqualified for the task before me, and I had the vague sense that arriving before anyone else and looking prepared was one way to earn the respect of students who were barely younger than I was.
Billionaires Are the Real Existential Risk

Sep 3, 2023 | jacobin.com | Tyler Harper

Talk of the apocalypse is everywhere. The twin threats of environmental collapse and artificial intelligence (AI) have ballooned in the public imagination. The prognosis feels grim. As even Barack Obama pointed out long ago, the complexity of climate change exploits the weakest point in the international system: its inability to coordinate planning in the face of crisis. AI presents a similar challenge: its already vast global digital infrastructure makes regulation a seemingly Sisyphean task.
The death of storytelling - The Boston Globe

Aug 24, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Tyler Harper |Leif Weatherby

In 1967, the French theorist Roland Barthes shook the foundations of literary criticism with a now-infamous essay entitled “The Death of the Author.” That essay, the bane of many an English major’s existence, rejected the idea that an author’s identity or even their intended meaning was relevant to understanding a text.
I Teach at an Elite College. Here’s a Look Inside the Racial Gaming of Admissions.

Jun 29, 2023 | archive.fo | Tyler Harper

By Tyler Austin HarperDr. Harper is an assistant professor of environmental studies at Bates College. When I was in graduate school several years ago, I spent my summers getting paid to help Asian American kids seem less Asian. I was a freelance tutor helping high school students prepare for college admissions, living only a few miles from the heavily Chinese and Chinese American neighborhood of Flushing in Queens.