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Articles by Alain Pilon
Come With Me if You Want to Survive an Age of Extinction
Every great technological change has a destructive shadow, whose depths swallow ways of life the new order renders obsolete. But the age of digital revolution -- the time of the internet and the smartphone and the incipient era of artificial intelligence -- threatens an especially comprehensive cull. It’s forcing the human race into what evolutionary biologists call a “bottleneck” -- a period of rapid pressure that threatens cultures, customs and peoples with extinction.
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You can see in Harrison Butker’s judgmental zeal the obvious ways in which traditionalism can be self-limiting. But the idea that it simply represents a kind of atavism, a medieval relic unaccountably preserved, misunderstands the nature of its strength, Ross Douthat writes. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times) -- FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY DOUTHAT-COLUMN of MAY 24, 2024. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. --
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During the 2016 Republican campaign, watching Donald Trump shoulder his way past his more pious rivals for the nomination, I remarked on the platform then known as Twitter: âIf you dislike the religious right, wait till you meet the post-religious right,â Ross Douthat writes. (Alain Pilon /The New York Times) â FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY SLUGGED DOUTHAT COLUMN BY ROSS DOUTHAT FOR MAY 10, 2024. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED â
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save The Crown’s series end was less intriguing than the real future of monarchy. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times) -- FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH DOUTHAT-COLUMN OF JAN. 5, 2023. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED.
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save A dose of Christmas optimism for a divided church. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times) -- FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH DOUTHAT-COLUMN OF DEC. 22, 2023. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED.
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Why a throwback celebrity couple could be the model for reviving marriage. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times) -- FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH DOUTHAT-COLUMN OF NOV. 17, 2023. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED.
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save “So the end of Peak TV’s abundance means less small-screen compensation for the big screen’s diminishment, and less space for creative ambition, period — whether that ambition runs toward difficulty and brilliance, or merely toward entertainment and delight,” Ross Douthat writes. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times) -- FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH DOUTHAT-COLUMN OF OCT. 6, 2023. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED.
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save If pairing off can even modestly reduce financial stress relative to single parenthood, it seems like a matter of economic self-interest for couples to at least try to make it work before having kids, Ross Douthat writes. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times) -- FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH DOUTHAT-COLUMN of SEPT. 29, 2023. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED.
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save There was stagnation in American life expectancy before Covid, but even in the shadow of the opioid epidemic there was no good reason to expect such a sharp decline, Ross Douthat writes. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times) -- FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY DOUTHAT COLUMN of SEPT. 22, 2023. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED.
Le Boxeur | Alain Pilon
Alain Pilon is a French-Canadian illustrator and artist based in Montreal. I’ve been working with him for twenty-five years, but our first meeting was a social occasion on a freezing winter night in Montreal in 1999. Over a bag of chips and a bottle of wine, he gave a friend and me a tour of his studio before taking us to dinner. At the time the wine and the potato chips and the late-night restaurant seemed to me the height of chic, urbane life.
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“The future of religion depends, in some way, on thoughtful people like Bacon coming around to the realization that this skeptical sense of things, this default to nonbelief, is itself just an intellectual fancy, a myth and a mistake.” writes The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY DOUTHAT COLUMN BY ROSS DOUTHAT FOR SEPT. 1 2023. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED.
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"If the legal challenges against Trump have the power to shape the democratic politics of 2024, the shaping power also works the other way," writes The New York Times columnist
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“But give Bronze Age Pervert this much: Our era is clearly allowing unexpected space to old alternatives to Christianity, of which his vitalism may be the most illiberal but definitely is not the strangest,” writes The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. “What does providence have in mind with these developments? Ask me again in a hundred years.” (Alain Pilon/The New York Times) -- FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY DOUTHAT COLUMN BY ROSS DOUTHAT FOR AUG. 11, 2023. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED.
Barbie | La récupération commerciale du féminisme
Cet été, le film américano-britannique Barbie remporte un immense succès au box-office au Québec et ailleurs. Il est réalisé par la cinéaste féministe étatsunienne Greta Gerwing. Le tapis rose est déroulé pour ce film : les critiques sont dithyrambiques. Un bon scénario rempli d’humour, une qualité de jeu des acteurs et un décor rose bonbon expliqueraient son succès.
Happy Returns
This March, I join my fellow citizens in the never-festive season of taxes—but what most people find familiar is actually quite novel to me. Since I quit my last real day job at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in 1991, you see, I have been an independent corporation. I have paid taxes, just not much on my personal income. That changed when I took a faculty position at the University of British Columbia last summer.
The Hanging of the Schoolmarm
The schoolmarm is playing poker in the town saloon. The stake is the saloon itself. As she is preparing to deal the cards, one of the men demands that she cut the fuckin’ deck, and she shoots him from her lap. “Sorry, but I simply cannot allow . . .” The others tip their crumpled hats. “No, ma’am, you just go ahead and deal.” The men of the town find the schoolmarm difficult but are awed by her refined and lofty character, and generally do what she tells them to do.
Our Doctors May Be Listening, but ...
Re “Doctor, Shut Up and Listen,” by Nirmal Joshi (Op-Ed, Jan. 5): I am a primary-care physician with an interest and expertise in doctor-patient communication. Everything Dr. Joshi says is correct: Patients appreciate and derive benefit from quality doctor-patient communication, but such discourse is rare in today’s medical delivery system. What is never discussed is why.
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