Social media has turned traditional Japanese matcha into a commercial trend, though its roots lie in Zen Buddhism. A scholar of premodern Japanese literature unpacks that history.
By Nolan Higdon Substack “Many professors cite the rising impact of AI and the speech of some prominent politicians as reasons to inoculate students against propaganda and falsehoods being mass produced and spread on social media,” according to a December 2025 report from Government Technology. This report highlights a nationwide push to integrate media literacy into educational curricula […]