A major publication drops a headline about a foreign conflict, something horrifying, something urgent. You click. The piece is elegant. The lede is tight. The sources are real. And yet, an hour later, you can’t remember a thing it said. It dissolves. Worse, it competes for space in your head with a TikTok of a golden retriever being spoon-fed ice cream. Who wins? This is not an isolated issue of attention. It is not reducible to "kids these days and their short attention spans." What we are l...