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Jay Caspian Kang

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Jay Caspian Kang

    Individual Choices Won’t Fix America’s Public Schools (opens the original)

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    Ten years ago, the journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones started a small revolution in education when she wrote an essay for the Times Magazine about finding the right school in New York City for her daughter, Najya, who was about to enter kindergarten. After some deliberation, Hannah-Jones picked P.S. 307, a struggling low-income school near where her family lived, in Brooklyn. Her logic, which she has repeated many times in the years since the essay was published, was simple: good schools were good b

  2. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Jay Caspian Kang

    Will A.I. Overwrite Our Sense of Shame? (opens the original)

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    This is part of a series of columns about the decline of shame in the age of social media. In the first installment of this series, I wrote about shame as one way that groups of people can mediate and enforce social norms without explicit state intervention. But there is an emergent Silicon Valley gospel that has challenged both the boundaries and the mechanisms of shame in America. What happens when millions of humans across the globe spend hours a day talking to a robot? Who taught that robot

  3. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Jay Caspian Kang

    The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart (opens the original)

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    This is the first in a series of columns about the decline of shame in the age of social media. This past February, during the dead months of the N.B.A. season, I went on a podcast to talk about the long-standing problem of tanking, which, for non-sports fans, is when a team purposely loses games to improve its odds of drafting the next franchise star. Domonique Foxworth, the podcast’s eponymous host, is a former N.F.L. cornerback who went on to serve as the president of the N.F.L. Players Assoc

  4. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Jay Caspian Kang

    How the Job Market Will Shape the Next Generation (opens the original)

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    Youth sentiment is a notoriously hard thing to track. Polling is a fraught enough enterprise without having to deal with flaky kids, occasionally impenetrable survey questions, and the real possibility that words such as “confidence” or “satisfied” might not mean the same thing from one generation to the next. What I’ve come to believe is that the only way you can genuinely track the attitudes of young people is through annual surveys, which, from year to year, sometimes show bright trend lines.

  5. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Jay Caspian Kang

    Why Millennial Professionals Are Embracing Socialism (opens the original)

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    During the past few weeks, I’ve heard from a lot of readers who have theories about Subaru Socialists, the term I used, in a recent column, to refer to middle-class, college-educated, liberal millennials. Some of the critics of this cohort blame colleges for pushing left-wing politics and engendering an excess of concern for struggling people; more sympathetic readers credit the work of community organizing and activism for generating those very same things. Reading these reactions has pushed me

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