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March 23, 2020

True Friendship Might Not Be Something You Can Find with an Algorithm

The Talmud, C.S. Lewis, and the importance of friendships based on disagreement.

According to a recent survey, 22 percent of millennials report having no friends, and 27 percent having no close friends. In response, Silicon Valley has introduced new technologies, modeled after Internet dating sites, that help potential friends find one another. Devorah Goldman, bemoaning the decline of one of the most critical bonds of human society, looks to the wisdom of C.S. Lewis for insight:

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