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I worry that the calculator we’ve known and loved is not long for this Earth. This month, when I upgraded my iPhone to the latest operating system, iOS 18, it came with a refreshed Calculator app. The update offered some improvements! I appreciated the vertical orientation of its scientific mode, because turning your phone sideways is so 2009; the continuing display of each operation (e.g., 217 ÷ 4 + 8) on the screen until I asked for the result; the unit-conversion mode, because I will never know what a centimeter is. But there also was a startling omission: The calculator’s “C” button—the one that clears input—was gone. The “C” itself had been cleared.Until today, the iPhone’s calculator mimicked the buttons of its forebears: If you keyed in 48.375, for instance, instead of 43.875, tapping “C” within your app would zero out your entry so you could try again. “Forty-three point eight seven five,” you might say aloud to remember, and then again while you tried to press the buttons in their proper order. Now that zeroing function is no more. In place of “C,” the app provides a backspace button (⌫). Pressing it removes the last digit from your input: 48.375 becomes 48.37, then 48.3, and so on.This may seem like an insignificant development, or a minor change for the better. Instead of clearing an errant figure and then incanting its digits while trying to reenter them, I can simply reverse to the point where I made the error—backspace, backspace, backspace—and type again from there, just as I’d do for text. By all measures of reason, this process is superior. Yet the loss of “C” from my calculator app has been more than a shock to me. It feels like an affront.[Read: Lithium-ion batteries have gone too far]The “C” button’s function is vestigial. Back when calculators were commercialized, starting in the mid-1960s, their electronics were designed to operate as efficiently as possible. If you opened up a desktop calculator in 1967, you might have found a dozen individual circuit boards to run and display its four basic mathematical functions. Among these would have been an input buffer or temporary register that could store an input value for calculation and display. The “C” button, which was sometimes labeled “CE” (Clear Entry) or “CI” (Clear Input), provided a direct interface to zero out—or “clear”—such a register. A second button, “AC” (All Clear), did the same thing, but for other parts of the circuit, including previously stored operations and pending calculations. (A traditional calculator’s memory buttons—“M+,” “M-,” “MC”—would perform simple operations on a register.)By 1971, Mostech and Texas Instruments had developed a “calculator on a chip,” which condensed all of that into a single integrated circuit. Those chips retained the functions of their predecessors, including the ones that were engaged by “C” and “AC” buttons. And this design continued on into the era of pocket calculators, financial calculators, and even scientific calculators such as the ones you may have used in school. Some of the latter were, in essence, programmable pocket computers themselves, and they could have been configured with a backspace key. They were not. The “C” button lived on.For me, that persistence fed a habit that I barely knew had been engrained. Decades of convention have made my mind and fingers expect the comforting erasure “C” provided. Destroy that input; make it zero! And zero it became, in an instant, a placeholder for any possibility. When I saw that “C” was gone, I was hanging art in my bedroom and trying to calculate a measurement for the center of the wall. Which is to say, my hands and brain were full: I was holding pencils and measuring tape as I balanced on a ladder and clung to the edge of the art frame. This was not the time for me to readjust my calculator’s input one digit at a time. I needed to zero that thang—but I couldn’t.[Read: Please don’t make me download another app]I am pleased but also confused to report that the iPhone’s “AC” button remains. When no value sits in the input buffer awaiting its desired mathematical operation, the ⌫ button changes to “AC.” The ability to destroy all local mathematics remains, at least for now. Also confusing: As TikTok influencers and tech tipsters have been pointing out for years, you could already backspace in the iPhone’s Calculator app just by swiping on the screen. (In the new app, that ability seems to have been removed.)I will acclimate, like I did to all the other ways in which having a magical general-purpose computer in my pocket has altered familiar interactions with formerly stand-alone devices. I’ve come to accept, for example, that the shutter button in my camera app doesn’t capture the lens view that I see on screen; instead, it initiates a set of software processes that construct the processed version of the scene that a thousand engineers think I want instead.But the “C” button’s quiet departure feels different. A computer computes, and calculation was one of its first and most important tasks. Today’s calculator programs are—or were—simulations of calculators, the electronic machines that had been designed to perform mathematical operations—the old, chunky machine with a printed tape that sat on your accountant’s desk; the Casio or TI calculator that you used for high-school trigonometry; the rugged Hewlett-Packard that you swiped off Dad’s desk so you could make its display read BOOBIES upside-down (5318008). It feels silly to lament their loss, or to miss a virtual button that did little more than refer to its precursor. Swapping “C” for ⌫ may be overdue, and it could end up making the software versions of electronic calculators better. Yet this small change has been upending. I worry that the calculator, like many other smartphone apps, is not evolving so much as being fiddled with, and for the joy of fiddling at that. Maybe the whole calculator project needs to press “AC” on itself, before that button is gone forever too.

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out.Last night at sundown, the annual Jewish holiday of Sukkot began. This seven-day celebration, known as both the Feast of Tabernacles and the Holiday of the Harvest, commemorates the exodus from Egypt and the end of the harvest season. Those observing the festival do so by erecting tent-like structures outdoors, in which they eat, pray, and even sleep, to recall the temporary dwellings made by the Israelites during their 40 years in the desert, as well as the shelters that farmers used in earlier times when they were bringing in the crops.Sukkot is a joyful celebration—in the Talmud, it is written that any Jew who has not celebrated Sukkot “never saw rejoicing in his lifetime.” That’s a claim I’ve never heard about any other holiday. I don’t recall anyone saying, for example, that Christmas is guaranteed to make you happy, let alone that you can’t be truly happy if you don’t celebrate Christmas.The spirit of Sukkot is in sharp contrast to the holiday that immediately precedes it: Yom Kippur, which calls upon Jews to make somber atonement for their sins. That change of mood will be especially poignant and difficult this year, coming so soon after the anniversary of the October 7 massacre in Israel. For some, Sukkot’s joyful celebration may understandably feel out of reach.But Sukkot has an ingenious method for bringing joy even in the midst of suffering, if people choose to accept it—what’s known as “reverse emotional causation.” Sukkot instructs its observants as follows: to, as they recall being saved, be humble, even if they feel proud; to be grateful for the abundance they enjoy, in spite of their resentments; to celebrate as befits the holiday, even if their hearts are hard. By this means, Sukkot engineers the joy it seeks to instill.You don’t need to be Jewish to benefit from Sukkot’s technique of reverse emotional causation. Learning this method can help you find more to rejoice in.[Yair Rosenberg: When you’re not in control of your life]We live in an age in which emotional authenticity is considered paramount. Many people talk about their feelings constantly and feel warranted in acting according to them. A common justification for saying something unkind might easily be “Because I felt angry.” As I have written a number of times, this rationale cedes a lot of behavioral autonomy to the brain’s limbic system, which largely functions below the level of conscious control. Negative basic emotions, for example—fear, anger, disgust, sadness—are at root a physiological response to perceived threats. To act because you feel these emotions is to allow yourself to be managed by what amounts to an entity of low intelligence.For greater happiness, a better way to live employs what behavioral scientists call metacognition. This simply refers to an impartial awareness of your emotions, a capacity to see them as important information but not as a mandate for any particular behavior. Good ways to practice metacognition include Vipassana meditation, journaling, and prayers, which shift the experience of involuntary emotion into the realm of conscious attention.Once you have this cognitive awareness of your feelings, you can consider what they mean, and how to act most appropriately in response.Social scientists have also found that emotions can be reeducated through conscious decisions and actions. Put simply, if you want to feel differently, act as if you do. Many experiments demonstrate this so-called as-if effect.Take humility, for example, which is a sentiment with both attitudinal and emotional components. Being humble is virtuous but devilishly elusive, especially for some people. As Benjamin Franklin—known by contemporaries for his lack of humility—joked in his autobiography, “Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome [my pride], I should probably be proud of my humility.”In 2014, a team of psychologists set out to test whether humility training could work. Participants were assigned a 7.5-hour set of exercises intended to help them recognize and acknowledge their limitations: Although they were not specifically seeking to become humbler, completion of the course did result in their becoming more open to ideas, acquiring a broader perspective with less focus on themselves and an enhanced ability to see value in other things. The researchers concluded that the intervention they’d designed increased humility by about 8 percent among participants (compared with no significant change among a control group that was not exposed to the exercises). The improved humility also came with a greater capacity for forgiveness and patience, and reduced negative feelings.Gratitude works the same way. You might think that being grateful requires feeling grateful. Researchers have successfully run the process in reverse. A 2011 study in Applied Psychology documented an experiment by three Canadian psychologists, in which one group of participants was asked to adopt a practice of thinking about what they were grateful for in life and to try to maintain this gratitude; a control group simply recalled a memorable event from their lives, with no prompt about feeling thankful. After four weeks of this exercise, the scholars found that those in the gratitude group reported almost 8 percent more life satisfaction, while the simply memorable controls were slightly less happy than when they’d begun.Finally, consider celebration itself. A holiday per se doesn’t necessarily stimulate positive emotion; that depends on how you decide to celebrate the occasion. In 2011, a team of Spanish and Chilean psychologists studying Christmas and New Year celebrations found that when the holidays were purposely ritualized through traditional practices, families on average experienced greater satisfaction with their life after the holiday than beforehand. In other words, people don’t celebrate because they feel joy; they feel joy because they have made a specific commitment to celebrate.[Arthur C. Brooks: Eight ways to banish misery]Sukkot devised an ancient formula for joy: No matter how you feel, for seven days, practice humility, count your blessings, and gather with family and friends to share in food and drink—and joy will find you.It might find others as well. The holiday in fact has a third name—the Festival of Lights, because the people of old Jerusalem would light great lamps that would illuminate the entire city. “And it shall be one day that shall be known to the Lord, neither day nor night,” wrote the prophet Zechariah, “and it shall come to pass that at eventide it shall be light.” From miles around, Jerusalem would be a brilliant, gleaming beacon, and all across the countryside, people would rejoice at the sight.Even if you are (like me) not Jewish, you can adopt your own personal Sukkot whenever your well-being isn’t where you want it to be. As an act of humility, set aside a week during which you will resolve to focus less on yourself and your professional or personal life; instead, try taking on a project that has no immediate benefit for you but gives a lot to others. Strive not to talk about yourself the entire week but concentrate on the things outside yourself for which you are grateful. One effective way of doing this is to make a gratitude list that you keep studying and updating over the week. And then make sure to celebrate with others whom you love: A ritual you could adopt would be to have dinner with a different friend or family member each night, and to use it as an occasion to bring joy to them as much as you can.By doing these things, you yourself will light up, creating the joy you seek. And like a little Jerusalem, you will shine on others and bring them the inspiration they need.Gut yom tov. Happy Sukkot.This essay is based on a Sukkot reflection delivered on October 16, 2024, at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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Have you ever looked after toddlers who insist on showing you everything they have done—terrible stick-figure drawings, what they’ve left in the potty—and demand that you admire it? If you have, then you’ve experienced something very similar to Donald Trump’s performance at a Fox News town hall yesterday in Cumming, Georgia, with an all-female audience. “FEMA was so good with me,” he said at one point. “I defeated ISIS,” he added later. “I’m the father of IVF,” he claimed, with no further explanation.The former president set a boastful tone early. The Fox News moderator, Harris Faulkner, told Trump that the Democrats were so worried about the town hall that the party had staged a “prebuttal” to the event, featuring Georgia’s two Democratic senators and the family of Amber Thurman, who died after having to leave the state to access abortion care. “We’ll get better ratings, I promise,” Trump replied, smirking. (Finally, someone willing to tell grief-stricken relatives to jazz it up a little.)This event was supposed to involve Trump reaching beyond his comfort zone, after he had spent the past few weeks shoring up his advantage with men by embarking on a tour of bro podcasts. But these women were extremely friendly—suspiciously so. CNN later reported that Republican women’s groups had packed it with Trump supporters. Still, even in this gentle setting, the former president blustered, evaded questions, and contradicted himself. [Read: The women Trump is winning]This election cycle has been dominated by podcast interviews with softball questions, but the Fox town hall reveals that the Trump campaign still believes that the legacy media can impart a useful sheen of gravitas, objectivity, and trustworthiness. If a candidate can get that without actually facing tough questions or a hostile audience, then so much the better. Why complain about “fake news” when you can make it? Thanks to Fox, Trump could court female voters without the risk of encountering any “nasty women”—or revealing his alienating, chauvinist side. (Fox did not respond to CNN’s questions about the event.)This has been called the “boys vs. girls election”: Kamala Harris leads significantly among women, and Trump among men; in the final stretch of the campaign, though, each is conspicuously trying to reach the other half of the electorate. Hence Harris’s decision to release an “opportunity agenda for Black men”—including business loans, crypto protections, and the legalization of marijuana—and talk to male-focused outlets such as All the Smoke, Roland Martin Unfiltered, The Shade Room, and Charlamagne Tha God’s radio program.For Trump, the main strategic aim of the Georgia town hall was surely to reverse out of his party’s unpopular positions on abortion and IVF. The former drew the most pointed question. “Women are entitled to do what they want to and need to do with their bodies, including their unborn—that’s on them,” a woman who identified herself as Pamela from Cumming said. “Why is the government involved in women’s basic rights?”This was the only time the former president made an attempt at being statesmanlike, focusing on the topic at hand rather than his personal grievances or dire warnings about immigration. The subject had been rightfully returned to the states, Trump maintained, and many had liberalized their regimes thanks to specific legislation and ballot measures. Some of the anti-abortion laws enacted elsewhere, he allowed, were “too tough, too tough.” He personally believed in exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. This unusual clarity suggests that his strategists have hammered into him that the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, has repelled swing voters. He took credit, though in a peculiar way, for saving IVF in Alabama after that state’s supreme court ruled that frozen embryos should be regarded as children. In his telling, he was alerted to the situation by Senator Katie Britt, whom he described as “a young—just a fantastically attractive person—from Alabama.” He put out a statement supporting IVF, and the legislature acted quickly to protect it. “We really are the party for IVF,” he added. “We want fertilization.”[Read: The people waiting for the end of IVF]Others dispute Trump’s account, and his claims to moderation on reproductive issues yesterday weren’t entirely convincing. (Project 2025, a blueprint for a second Trump term that was compiled by many of his allies, calls for a raft of restrictions on abortion.) But at least it was something close to a direct answer. The first questioner, Lisa from Milton—whom CNN later identified as the president of Fulton County Republican Women—asked Trump about the economy. She got the briefest mention of the “liquid gold” underneath America, which will allegedly solve its economic problems. Then Trump segued into musing about his “favorite graph”—the one on illegal immigration that supposedly saved his life in Butler, Pennsylvania.To give Faulkner some credit, she did try to return the conversation to reality at several points, with vibe-killing questions such as “And we can pay for that?” (That was in response to Trump’s suggestion that he would cut tax on benefits for seniors. Trump sailed on without acknowledging it.) He told Linda, also from Milton, that transgender women competing in female sports was “crazy,” ruefully shaking his head. “We’re not going to let it happen,” he added.“How do you stop it?” Faulkner asked. “Do you go to the sports leagues?”Nothing so complicated! “You just ban it,” he said. “The president bans it. You just don’t let it happen.” Now, the U.S. commander in chief might oversee the world’s biggest military and its largest economy, but he or she is not currently charged with setting the rules of Olympic boxing.Next up was a single mom, Rachel, struggling with the cost of daycare. She was visibly emotional as she stood at the mic. “You have a beautiful voice, by the way,” Trump said, to put her at ease. In response to Rachel’s question about how her child tax credit had decreased, he mentioned his daughter Ivanka, who, he said “drove me crazy” about the issue. “She said, Dad, we have to do tax credits for women. The child tax credits. She was driving me crazy.” (Typical woman, always banging on about economic freedom this and reproductive rights that.) “Then I did it, and I got it just about done, and she said: Dad, you’ve got to double it up.” He noted that fellow Republicans had told him he would get no gratitude for this, and then promised Rachel that he would “readjust things.”[Read: Trump called Harris ‘beautiful.’ Now he has a problem.]Audience members seemed not to mind that there was only the vaguest relationship between many of their questions and the former president’s eventual answers. (Contrast that with Bloomberg News’s interview the day before, in which the editor in chief, John Micklethwait, rebuked Trump for referring to “Gavin Newscum” and dragged him back from a riff about voter fraud with the interjection: “The question is about Google.”) Some solid objects did appear through the mist, however. Trump promised an end to “sanctuary cities” and a 50 percent reduction in everyone’s energy bills, and he defended his “enemies from within” comments as a “pretty good presentation.”Much like a toddler, Trump occasionally said something insightful in a naive and entirely unselfconscious manner. Talking about Aurora, Colorado, where he and his running mate, J. D. Vance, have claimed that Venezuelan gangs are running rampant—a claim that the city’s mayor has called “grossly exaggerated”—a brief cloud of empathy passed across the former president’s face. “They’ve taken over apartment buildings,” he said. “They’re in the real-estate business, just like I am.” (So true: The industry does attract some unsavory characters.) Later, talking about the number of court cases filed against him, Trump observed, “They do phony investigations. I’ve been investigated more than Alphonse Capone.” Sorry? Had someone left a pot of glue open near the stage? Did the former president really just compare himself to a big-time criminal who was notoriously convicted only of his smaller offenses?And then, all too soon, the allotted hour was up. Fox, according to CNN, edited out at least one questioner’s enthusiastic endorsement of Trump. Even so, it was obvious that the ex-president’s many partisans at the event enjoyed themselves. Before asking about foreign policy, the last questioner, Alicia from Fulton County, thanked Trump for coming into “a roomful of women that the current administration would consider domestic terrorists.” (“That’s true,” he replied.) But had undecided women watching at home learned anything more about Trump that might inform their vote? No. Did they at least have a good time? Probably not.

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