Wow. I was just listening to Conversations with Tyler with Jill Lepore[1] this morning. She mentioned this article at the end: COWEN: Final question. The world

Wow. I was just listening to Conversations with Tyler with Jill Lepore[1] this morning. She mentioned this article at the end: COWEN: Final question. The world of social media, we all know it’s not going away. Maybe it has some problems, but if you were to give a student or a person some piece of advice or intellectual ammunition to carry with them through this world — some book, some essay, some thought — so as to make it marginally better rather than marginally worse, what would that be? LEPORE: Read this E. B. White essay called “Death of a Pig.” COWEN: And what does he tell us in “Death of a Pig”? LEPORE: A pig dies on his . . . He was in Maine. He’s trying to understand what it means when something dies when you didn’t expect it to die and you couldn’t save it, and I just find it a very beautiful essay. But I think something is dying, and we can’t save it, and that’s a good place to start, to figure out how to feel about that. [1]: https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-jill-lepore-wonder-woman-harvard-new-yorker-aafbd123f165 https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-jill...