Is Your Phone Trying to Kill You?

View this email in your browser Is Your Phone Trying to Kill You? Good Saturday morning, dear reader! As ever, we apologize for the intrusion as you leaf lovingly through Virgil’s Eclogues, say, or perhaps van Leeuwenhoek’s collected works. But it would be cruel to deprive you of the most recent episode of Nick Bilton’s Inside the Hive podcast, or Jill Filipovic’s searing analysis of the forces that drive Trumpism. We hope that you are enjoying what you’re reading (and listening to). Don’t forget to subscribe to Vanity Fair, and have a great day! Nick Bilton Is Your Phone Trying to Kill You? And is it still possible to unplug? Author Ryan Holiday joins Inside the Hive to discuss how technology is designed to keep you hooked. The Brady Offensive Sarah Brady is all proper Republican gentility. Her husband, James, severely disabled in the Reagan assassination attempt 10 years ago, is a hellfire political operative. Together they have become the most potent partnership in the battle for gun control and the most effective weapon so far against the NRA’s stranglehold on Congress. Now they’re turning up the heat in the fight for “the Brady Bill,” which would allow the police to check out gun buyers, and discourage impulse shopping for murder. Jill Filipovic Promise Rings and Immigrant “Invasions”: How Evangelical Purity Culture Helps Explain Trumpism My virginity-until-marriage pledge was based on the premise that if you don’t know any better, you’ll never want anything more. Similarly, adherents to Trumpism would rather know less, and risk stagnation and decline, than come into contact with information that complicates their view of America. I Tried Hiding From Silicon Valley From Bloomberg The Tyranny of the Ideal Woman From the Guardian Biden, Inc. From Politico Toni Morrison and What Our Mothers Couldn’t Say From the New Yorker This e-mail was sent to you by HIVE PS. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2019. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.