It explores a basic question that occupies many long distance hikers: exactly why am I doing this?! Horvat's narrative considers four motivations for hiking: Nature, Time, Community, and Mental Health. A fifth and final section summarizes his conclusions. Too many of us are estranged from Nature. In long distance hiking at two miles per hour, we're forced to slow down, both physically and mentally. Hiking provides a sense of community with the total strangers that you meet: "man is not man without other people.
It engenders gratitude for the "little big things" in life, like a sip of water or a hot shower. In a sort of paradox, the wilderness heals us with its austerity. Horvat says that he is planning a sequel to this film that will be shot on the Arizona Trail, and which will turn from the "why" to the "how" practical tips of hiking.
What in the World: Turkey's authoritarian spiral Fareed breaks down how Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey went from lauded beacon of democratic reform, to the poster child for illiberal democracy.
Fareed Zakaria pays tribute to his mother Fareed remembers his mother, Fatma Zakaria, who passed away from Covid-related complications in India. She was Fareed: Can Biden make the US government great again? Fareed Zakaria gives his take on how President Biden's infrastructure plan could restore America's faith in the effectiveness of government.
Fareed is joined by historians Jon Meacham and Niall Ferguson to examine historical precedents for Biden's expansive federal government programs. Niall Ferguson tells Fareed why fears of overheating the U.
Last Look: Schools in the age of Covid Fareed takes a look at how the pandemic is exacerbating inequality in learning, and what can be done to mitigate long term damage to children's prospects. Fareed's Take: Bigness is not a substitute for brains CNN's Fareed Zakaria gives his take on why ever-increasing defense spending in the name of standing up to China is misleading. S and Chinese diplomats in the Biden era.
On GPS: the EU's botched vaccine rollout worsens Zanny Minton Beddoes and the panel break down how missteps and a hesitant population are combining to bog down efforts to vaccinate Europe. On GPS: Why Covid hasn't hit poor countries as hard Writer and physician Siddhartha Mukherjee tells Fareed what he found when he investigated the global south's remarkable resilience to the pandemic. Last Look: The undemocratic history of the filibuster Fareed takes a look at how the Senate stalling manoeuvre was born, how it was used in the past and why it is emblematic of minority rule in today's Senate.
Fareed: Here's the truth about asylum and immigrant policy Fareed Zakaria gives his take on the surge of migration to the Southern US border and explains why America's current asylum policy is "out of date. On GPS: Biden's 1. On GPS: Will the relief bill doom public investment? Paul Krugman, Larry Summers and Fareed on what the huge Covid rescue package could mean for the Biden administration's economic agenda. Biden, who has marshaled the full power of the federal government to fight Covid On GPS: Are vaccine passports inevitable?
NYU Professor of medical ethics Arthur Caplan joins Fareed to lay out the benefits and pitfalls of demanding proof of vaccination at borders. What in the World: India's democracy backslides Fareed on why the current Indian government has overseen a marked decline in freedom in the world's largest democracy. Fareed's Take: The "thickening" of government Fareed gives his take on how the U.
House of Representatives is excessive or well calibrated. What in The World: Central banks eye Bitcoin's success As Bitcoin's sky high valuations make headlines, Fareed explores the interest of several central banks in launching digital currencies of their own. Fareed: Can the GOP control its extremists? CNN's Fareed Zakaria gives his take on the Republican Party's tolerance of extremism within its ranks, and how it could threaten American democracy itself.
Can the world prepare for such extreme weather? The Atlantic's Annie Lowrey on why she feels the U. Last Look: Bhutan's Covid success Fareed looks into how a small and relatively poor nation tackled the pandemic so well, and the lessons wealthier nations can learn from it. Fareed's take: Biden's foreign policy plans are 'worrying' CNN's Fareed Zakaria says there are worrying signs the Biden administration seems willing to tailor its foreign policy agenda to placate GOP critics and ultimately, it will not work.
David Frum, Anne Applebaum and Fareed explore what conservative parties around the world are doing right, and how the Republican party should change. Frieden and Fareed break down the latest case numbers in the U. On GPS: Could hackers poison water supplies? The New York TImes's cybersecurity and digital espionage reporter Nicole Perlroth on the state of cyberwafare in the wake of the gigantic SolarWinds hack. Last Look: A shocking surge in anti-Asian racism Fareed takes a look at the spike in racist incidents targeting Asians that has gone hand in hand with the rise of the Covid pandemic.
Conservatives offer a better path. Cui Tiankai about the Uyghur issue. Cui on Uyghurs Chinese Amb. Cui answers Fareed on allegations of genocide against the Uyghurs.
Last Look: A coup in Myanmar Fareed takes a look at the track record of Aung Sang Suu Kyi, who was overthrown by the Burmese military after a failed transition to democracy. Fareed's take: The grave consequences of vaccine nationalism Fareed Zakaria gives his take on how unequal distribution of vaccines could mean the world never fully recovers from Covid Fareed: million vaccines in days isn't enough Fareed gives his take on why President Biden should double his vaccination ambitions for his first days in office.
Fareed is joined by an all-star panel from around the world to debate what key partners and competitors expect from the Biden administration. Last Look: Covid vaccinations around the globe Fareed takes a look at success stories from Covid vaccination campaigns around the world, and what the U. Fareed gives his take on what the Republican Party's submission to Trump and exploitation of conspiracy theories could mean for its future.
Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson on the lessons America can draw from the chaotic final weeks of the Trump administration. Right-wing radicalism scholar Cynthia Miller-Idriss fleshes out the identity and ideology of the mob that sought to overturn the election results. Fareed: There is cause for optimism after capitol attack Fareed gives his take on how America can move on from one the worst crises of democratic confidence in its history.
Army General weighs in on the storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. On GPS: America's history of electoral violence Historian Eric Foner and Fareed look back on the historical precedents for the kind of election-related violence on display in America today. Fareed's Take: The world needs more cooperation Fareed gives his take on how America can reclaim its historic role in the world after four years of increasing isolationism.
Incoming National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan breaks down what the next administration will strive to achieve in the next four years. Fareed asks Jake Sullivan what Americans should know about him as he prepares to take on one of the biggest jobs in the incoming Biden administration.
Last Look: The chicken nuggets of the future Fareed takes a look at lab-grown meat's tremendous potential as a choice tool in humanity's fight against climate change. Fareed Take: Has Russia hacked into our minds? Fareed gives his take on the unprecedented hack of U. You cannot have creative community in a city that is exorbitantly expensive. It could work if the people with all the money gave to the things that needed to be supported, but unfortunately, that's not the case.
The ceiling in Toledo is much higher for me. It's dirt-cheap to live, and we can really create something special there. That's the kind of opportunity you're never going to get here. Unlike when I moved here, San Francisco's not the only place anymore where it's okay to smoke weed and be gay.
There's been a big cultural shift in the rest of the country in the past few years. The thing that drew me to San Francisco is because it's where my people were, but it's no longer the only place. To be clear about this: America is a big, complex place, and through its history people have always been moving back and forth, metropolis to countryside to suburb and back again. The point in emphasizing the activity in the Columbuses, the Fresnos, the Allentowns, the Toledos is that their activity has gotten less attention than it deserves.
Finally for today, a new story in PS magazine — formally Pacific Standard , formerly Miller-McCune , and for the record a publication with many ties to the Atlantic. Its current editor is Atlantic alumnus Nicholas Jackson; its previous editor was Maria Streshinsky, once our managing editor here and now at Mother Jones ; before her was my friend John Mecklin , now of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
Namely, that our all-too-obvious national level dysfunction coexists with, and masks, lower-level civic health. For example:. In fact, despite plummeting levels of confidence in government, Gastil and Lukensmeyer [ John Gastil of Penn State and Carol Lukensmyer of Arizona] see a new trend of people wanting to be part of the solution. And yes, people might not have the time to stay up-to-date on government affairs at all times; they might not always care.
But when they do, and when they believe that there is real skin the in the game, and get to interact with the government in a substantial way, as Russon-Gilman [ Hollie Russon-Gilman of New America] explains, things change. But how can we give people that extra push that will make them care about what goes on in their community?
For Lukensmeyer, it comes down to remembering that humans are social beings. We respond to the structures and signals in which we exist. Our response to a certain issue largely depends on how that issue is framed, who is in the room with us when we have that conversation, and to what extent we can manage to keep a civil discourse regardless of likeness of opinion. We need to stop fetishizing leadership; we need to get up from the couch and go to our city hall meetings; we need to talk to our neighbors; and we need to start carrying our own weight in governing ourselves.
John Adams, in a letter to a friend, recognized that the glorification of leadership was a hindrance to democratic progress: "The country won't improve," he said, "until the people begin to consider themselves as the fountain of power.
We can, at the very least, say that, if we're tired of hearing that America is broken, we ourselves can start talking about how to fix it. Probably a better message to reflect on that whatever we hear this evening about the Ohio and Florida results.
Thanks to Titus Levi for the PS tip. What you can do, as Davidson points out, is get a little bigger slice of the pie for yourself, which leaves a little less for the other guy — making you the winner and the other guy the loser.
This view underlies the way Trump talks about everything. Davidson says:. Manhattan real estate development is about as far as it is possible to get, within the United States, from that Econ notion of mutually beneficial transactions. This is not a marketplace characterized by competition and dynamism; instead, Manhattan real estate looks an awful lot more like a Middle Eastern rentier economy.
It is a hereditary system. We talk about families, not entrepreneurs. Having grown up in Manhattan myself, I think of these names the way I heard Middle Easterners speak of the great sheikhs who ran big families in Jordan, Iraq and Syria. These are people of immense power and influence, but their actual skills and abilities are opaque. Of course deals matter at every level, from haggling at a bazaar to striking a nuclear arms-control agreement.
But in the parts of economic and social life where new things are being created, the deal is the means , not the end itself. But none of them began with the deal centrally in mind.
The business, the product, the disruption, the creation were what originally fascinated and motivated them. But figuring it out, and then making it happen , was the attraction and challenge.
Understanding the impulses behind entrepreneurship and creativity, and the practical circumstances that make these efforts more or less attainable, really matters for a society. Those reports emphasized that if a society wants more jobs , it needs to keep fostering more new companies. That is because of the non-obvious but well-substantiated point that, in toto, virtually all the growth in jobs come from companies in their first few years of existence.
Thus putting more people to work means reducing the practical barriers between having an idea and starting a small company. All this is the background to news in the NYT last month that the young Collison brothers of Ireland, John and Patrick, who together have founded the online payments system Stripe , had introduced a new feature designed to make it easier for entrepreneurs around the world to reach a global market.
The feature is called Stripe Atlas, and you can see info and watch a video about it here. For the record: I have met John and Patrick Collison of Stripe, and their journalist-brother Tommy, in San Francisco but have no connection to the company beyond being interested in its idea. The new Stripe Atlas features may not sound like much. Essentially, they offer a low-cost way for small businesses around the world to set up a presence in the U. As a result of these changes and some others, an entrepreneur in Egypt or Turkey or Ghana or Poland is able to operate as if it had a U.
As Patrick Collison explained in an email:. The nuts and bolts of the business infrastructure was the hardest part of getting started for them.
Now, entrepreneurs across more than countries with a combined population of 6 billion people! One obvious question is: Does any of this matter? To see how it might, consider other mundane-seeming changes that profoundly changed the terrain of opportunity. A decade ago, easy web-creation and blogging tools allowed anyone to establish an online presence. The worldwide ATM network, along with international credit-card acceptance, has greatly streamlined the previously headache-filled process of dealing with foreign currencies.
The other potential Trump-era American question, or reaction, is: Oh no! One more tool for the foreigners!! Now, applying this to the news of the day: For more than half a century, the U. As the White House had been making plans for the new banking policies and next week's trip, "people on the ground in Cuba suggested the president check out this Atlas thing," Collison told me. After hearing from the Obama administration, Stripe moved quickly to prep a version of the service it could offer in Cuba.
In the meantime, this is an example of the adaptive, creative, entrepreneurial activity underway in so many more places than usually make it onto the media radar. And since the Collisons are also an aviation family, I must close with one of the pictures Patrick has posted via Twitter , of flying his own little airplane from Miami to Havana yesterday.
Here goes:. Thus naturally my feelings were hurt by the headline below from the Daily Utah Chronicle , over a story by Emma Tanner:.
No offense meant! We have another season of reporting-travel coming up this summer and fall and might be in the vicinity. Meanwhile I salute the spirit with which Tanner closes out her series, especially the wry final line. Not only do Utah residents know, for the most part, what role the Mormons have played in establishing and sustaining successful state operations through an interesting and sometimes twisted history, but people around the globe know Utah for its Mormons, for better or worse….
Lastly, points five and eleven address whether the city has a downtown and craft breweries. Craft breweries matter as an indicator of entrepreneurship and appeal to young people.
Utah, as of now, has more than ten craft breweries, which my twenty-year-old self hears are pretty great. On the contrary, politicians, educators, business people, students and retirees frequently stressed the ways their communities were trying to attract and include new people. Every small town in America has thought about how to offset the natural brain drain that has historically sent its brightest young people elsewhere.
The same emphasis on inclusion that makes a town attractive to talented outsiders increases its draw to its own natives. I think the frequency of just that is increasing in Knoxville.
On this front I think our mayor has been particularly keen in welcoming everyone and framing that into city policy.
Still, in speaking specifically of the city, I think we do well on this variable. Thanks to Knoxville resident and longtime friend Neil McBride for the tip. I was in Chicago for two days and one night recently from Urbana IL, where my wife and I live and where are four kids grew up. I looked out our hotel window and saw three of the many bridges across the river and remembered that almost all of the old bridges in town had been rebuilt, one by one, in the past 15 years.
Beautiful and important work. But no stories in the struggling newspapers remind us of this most important work. No politician is getting regular credit for pushing this work through. Too bad. In , when it was released, the song spawned a new microeconomy of commentary denouncing it as a distillation of rape culture , or fretting over whether enjoying its jaunty hook was defensible. In the video, directed by the veteran Diane Martel, three models dressed in transparent thongs peacock and pose with a baffling array of props a lamb, a banjo, a bicycle, a four-foot-long replica of a syringe while Thicke, the producer and one of the co-writers Pharrell Williams, and the rapper T.
Polls consistently show that a significant majority of Republican men, and even as many as half of Republican women, believe that amid the reassessment of gender relations sparked by the MeToo movement, men are being unfairly punished and discriminated against. Research has found that having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated.
Few choices are more important than whether to have children, and psychologists and other social scientists have worked to figure out what having kids means for happiness. Others have pushed back, pointing out that a lot depends on who you are and where you live. But a bigger question is also at play: What if the rewards of having children are different from, and deeper than, happiness? The early research is decisive: Having kids is bad for quality of life. In one study , the psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues asked about employed women to report, at the end of each day, every one of their activities and how happy they were when they did them.
They recalled being with their children as less enjoyable than many other activities, such as watching TV, shopping, or preparing food. Doing work that is fulfilling has become ubiquitous career advice, but no one should depend on a single social institution to define their sense of self. Since the start of the pandemic, Americans have been talking seriously with friends, family, and themselves about the shortcomings of their modern-day work lives.
According to my research, which draws on surveys and interviews with college students, graduates, and career coaches, more than 75 percent of college-educated workers believe that passion is an important factor in career decision making. And 67 percent of them say they would prioritize meaningful work over job stability, high wages, and work-life balance. Believers in this idea trust that passion will inoculate them against the drudgery of working long hours on tasks that they have little personal connection to.
For many, following their passion is not only a path to a good job; it is the key to a good life. Our fears about what other people think of us are overblown and rarely worth fretting over. Click here to listen to his new podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life. Social media has opened up our heads so that just about any trespasser can wander in. If you tweet whatever crosses your mind about a celebrity, it could quite possibly reach the phone in her hand as she sits on her couch in her house.
We are wired to care about what others think of us. My best friend had gone through a tough divorce and was remarrying. I was thrilled for him. As a bonus, the wedding would take place in New Orleans, where my friend lives. New Orleans is a miraculous place, and my favorite city to visit in America. The notion of a trip there shone out of the fog and dreariness of this whole era of history. According to these sorts of arguments, people who never go to college stay reasonable, normal, or—depending on how you look at it—asleep.
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