Of the 18th of November, 2024 Fortunately, the continuity of spacetime has resumed: the Fortnightly is back! In this edition, we have a round up of new E-ink and time-blocking tools, then an (unusually long) column with the Riddler’s take on “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read
Or, why PowerPoint is probably making us stupid — and how its failings reflect the first wave of modern technological criticism.
On Goodhart's Law, better tools for presentation, the evils of PowerPoint, and another Johnnie problem.
A quarter century ago, David Brooks wrote "Bobos In Paradise: the new elite and how they got there". The Riddler asks: what's happened to them since?