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Is there any hope for the internet?

  • Written by Aarushi Bhandari, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Davidson College
Is there any hope for the internet?Hate and mental illness fester online because love and healing seem to be incompatible with profits.Ihor Lukianenko/iStock via Getty Images

In 2001, social theorist bell hooks warned about the dangers of a loveless zeitgeist. In “All About Love: New Visions,” she lamented “the lack of an ongoing public discussion … about...

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