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“There will be a day this war ends,” Thomas Friedman says on this episode of “The Opinions” about the conflict in Gaza. “And when that happens, it’s going to be a very bad day for Israel, and it’s going to be a very bad day for world Jewry because the scenes are going to be horrific.” https://nyti.ms/43l77dt

“To live in fiction, commit to it,” Frank Bruni writes. “That’s the moral not merely of Trump and Jan. 6 but of Trump, period.” https://nyti.ms/4kfEiF0

“Trying to remake universities into a bastion of conservative ideology is not going to happen no matter how hard the administration tries,” Cathy Putnam writes in a letter to The Times. https://nyti.ms/3Ss1IuU

Young people are dating less, marrying less and having fewer children. “We’re all retreating into this digital solitude,” the social scientist Alice Evans tells Ross Douthat on this episode of “Interesting Times.” “I think that’s partly because technology makes it nicer and easier to stay at home.” https://nyti.ms/4jreXqI

“Racist Americans have murdered Black lives and tried to murder Black afterlives, Black stories and Black history,” Ibram X. Kendi writes. “So when Black people die, what we created, what we contributed, what we changed, what we documented dies, too. No funeral. Just gone from memory.” https://nyti.ms/450d68C

“When the moral stakes are made clear most soldiers are absolutely motivated in part by ideals — even in the heat of combat,” our columnist David Brooks writes. https://nyti.ms/3ZGqYBj

President Trump “now has an opportunity to display strength and push Russia and Ukraine toward a settlement that would allow him to claim success and, far more important, end this gruesome war,” the editorial board writes. https://nyti.ms/3SZgyZS

“Tradition is fine but should never be an end in its own right. And even the greatest composers agreed: Opera is better when you can understand it,” John McWhorter writes. https://nyti.ms/4dE8FTb

“As the chaotic scenes made clear, rather than increasing access to lifesaving supplies, the new aid distribution plan, facilitated by an organization called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, threatens to make things worse,” writes Catherine Russell, the executive director of UNICEF. https://nyti.ms/43x9cl9

Why are we still arguing over stale issues like Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame? Blame our Relitigator-in-Chief, argues Will Leitch, and “the aggrieved pseudo-nostalgia” that fuels MAGA, meaning “no old argument can truly be settled.” https://nyti.ms/4kEQhfa