When the news is one report of human suffering — or environmental degradation, or violation of democratic norms — after another, people might be forgiven for averting their eyes from the headlines in favor of getting a better night's sleep. The only problem: In a democracy, tuning out means giving the foxes full run of the henhouse.
In recent years, I've been looking for a solution to this conundrum. How is it possible to be a well-informed citizen and simultaneously a calm, mostly cheerful, more or less sane human being?
The closest thing I've found to a workaround is the right dosing. I follow the news during daylight hours. At night, I read a book...
Margaret Renkl
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/opinion/reading-novellas-short-novels.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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