{"id":171618,"date":"2025-08-24T11:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T11:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171618\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T11:59:12","slug":"seven-summer-weekend-reads-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171618\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Summer-Weekend Reads – The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.<\/a><\/p>\n

On this late-summer weekend, read stories on what having a crush can teach you about yourself, the rise and fall of computer-science degrees, and how, exactly, America got so mean.<\/p>\n

There Are Two Types of Dishwasher People<\/a><\/p>\n

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And only one of them really knows how to load it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By Ellen Cushing<\/p>\n

How America Got Mean<\/a><\/p>\n

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In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world. (From 2023)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By David Brooks<\/p>\n

The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting<\/a><\/p>\n

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Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By Rose Horowitch<\/p>\n

Buy, Borrow, Die<\/a><\/p>\n

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How to be a billionaire and pay no taxes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By Rog\u00e9 Karma<\/p>\n

A Ticking Clock on American Freedom<\/a><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s later than you think, but it\u2019s not too late.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By Adrienne LaFrance<\/p>\n

Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene<\/a><\/p>\n

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Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality\u2014and then pretend to be engines of social change. (From 2021)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By Caitlin Flanagan<\/p>\n

A Crush Can Teach You a Lot About Yourself<\/a><\/p>\n

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There\u2019s no harm in fantasies, even if you know they\u2019ll never come true. (From 2023)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By Faith Hill<\/p>\n

The Week Ahead<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. The Roses<\/a>, a comedy movie about a seemingly perfect couple whose hidden tensions explode after the husband\u2019s career falls apart (out Friday in theaters)<\/li>\n
  2. Katrina: Come Hell and High Water<\/a>, a three-part documentary following the stories of Hurricane Katrina survivors (out Wednesday on Netflix)<\/li>\n
  3. Katabasis<\/a>, a novel by the best-selling author R. F. Kuang about two graduate students who must set aside their rivalry and journey to hell to save their professor\u2019s soul (out Tuesday)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Essay<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"AIllustration by Akshita Chandra \/ The Atlantic. Source: Getty.<\/p>\n

    What Claire\u2019s Once Gave Tween Girls<\/p>\n

    By Ellen Cushing<\/p>\n

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    Mostly, I remember the fluffy pens. When I was in elementary and middle school, nothing could be cooler than a fluffy pen, at least until it got covered in backpack grime and started to look like an exceptionally long-tailed subway rat. And no place had fluffy pens in abundance like Claire\u2019s, a chain that sold accessories and other trinkets and, at the time, seemed to exist in every shopping center in America. Mine had an entire wall of fluffy pens, in every color, usually for some kind of absurd deal that allowed even a child to feel the intoxicating rush of acquisition. This was what Claire\u2019s was for. It was a temple to girlhood, a place where everything was frivolous and where tooth-fairy money could make dreams come true.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    Photo Album<\/b><\/p>\n

    \"TheThe wooden Kiruna Church is being transferred three miles to a new location in Kiruna, Sweden. (Jonathan Nackstrand \/ AFP \/ Getty)<\/p>\n

    These photos show a huge, 113-year-old Sami-style Lutheran church in Kiruna, Sweden, being transported three miles<\/a> from its original site.<\/p>\n

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