Read : 2023-02-18

Articles for reading

1. “Why is affirmative action in peril? One man’s decision.” by Emily Bazelon (The New York Times, 2023-02-15).
2. “Is Sweden still ‘Sweden’? A liberal utopia grapples with an identity crisis” by Lane Lambert (Harvard Business School, 2023-02-14).
3. “When will a robot write a novel?” by Krzysztof Gajos, via Colleen Walsh (The Harvard Gazette, 2021-11-15).
4. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-02-17). On spy balloons and Google’s Loon.
5. “Work out daily? OK, but how socially fit are you?” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-02-10).
6. “Lots of investors think inflation is under control. Not so fast” (The Economist, 2023-02-16).
7. “After silencing critics at home, Narendra Modi goes after foreign media” (The Economist, 2023-02-16).

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “Gian Paolo Barbieri elevated fashion photography” (The Economist, 2023-02-10).

Cybersecurity

1. “Industrial espionage: How China sneaks out America’s technology secrets” by Nicholas Yong (BBC News, 2023-01-16).
2. “Why do we fall for hackers? Blame our brains” by Anthony Vance, C. Brock Kirwan (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-15).

Economics

1. “The Bank of Japan’s new governor, Ueda Kazuo, marks a break with tradition” (The Economist, 2023-02-14).
2. “Annual inflation cooled slightly in January as pace of moderation levels off” by Gwynn Guilford (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-14).
3. “Inflation will be harder to bring down than markets think” (The Economist, 2023-02-16).
4. “The road to disinflation” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-02-15).
5. “No-landing and the anti-gravity economy” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-02-16).
6. “Decoupling is not deglobalization” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-02-15).
7. “Lots of investors think inflation is under control. Not so fast” (The Economist, 2023-02-16).
8. “Investors expect the economy to avoid recession” (The Economist, 2023-02-15).

Education

1. “Ego U” by Julie A. Reuben (Harvard Magazine, 2023-03 | 2023-04).
2. “The rituals of case method teaching” by Shona Simkin (Harvard Business School, 2023-01-25).
3. “The morning” by German Lopez (The New York Times, 2023-02-17). Subtitled “Conservatives are trying to do to higher education what they did to the news media and think tanks.” What is the difference, whether a group is deliberately defined or implicitly associated? whether it pushes institutions and society a certain way consciously from the outside or unconsciously from the inside?
4. “To increase equity, school districts eliminate honors classes” by Sara Randazzo (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-17). Article relies on anecdote.

Health and medicine

1. “Work out daily? OK, but how socially fit are you?” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-02-10).

Investing

1. “How Bed Bath & Beyond avoided bankruptcy” by Gregory Zuckerman, Soma Biswas, Alexander Gladstone (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-16).
2. “Stock buybacks aren’t bad. They aren’t good, either.” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-17).
3. “Growth stocks are trumping value once again” by Hardika Singh (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-17).

Law

1. “Why is affirmative action in peril? One man’s decision.” by Emily Bazelon (The New York Times, 2023-02-15).

Mathematics

1. “The Jordan curve theorem as a lusona” by Allechar Serrano López (American Mathematical Society, 2023-02).

Politics

1. “Nikki Haley’s presidential bid illustrates the Republicans’ problems” (The Economist, 2023-02-14).
2. “The many abuses of Lina Khan’s FTC” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-14).
3. “Why I’m resigning as an FTC commissioner” by Christine Wilson (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-14).
4. “Chinese propaganda is surprisingly effective abroad” (The Economist, 2023-02-16).
5. “After silencing critics at home, Narendra Modi goes after foreign media” (The Economist, 2023-02-16).
6. “Lael Brainard will take control of America’s economic nerve centre” (The Economist, 2023-02-15).
7. “Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation is part of Britain’s great moderation” (The Economist, 2023-02-15).
8. “What America has been shooting down in the sky” (The Economist, 2023-02-15).

   [G]iven that the combined cost of the two AIM-9x Sidewinder missiles fired on Sunday was about $900,000, it could become a rather expensive exercise in futility.

Science and technology

1. “When will a robot write a novel?” by Krzysztof Gajos, via Colleen Walsh (The Harvard Gazette, 2021-11-15).
2. “Will ChatGPT supplant us as writers, thinkers?” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-02-14). An interview with Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker.
3. “When your boss is tracking your brain” by Amy Dockser Marcus (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-15).
4. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-02-17). On spy balloons and Google’s Loon.

Society

1. “Do facts still matter?” by Jeff Neal (Harvard Law Today, 2023-02-08). An interview with New York Times chief newsroom lawyer David McCraw.
2. “Is Sweden still ‘Sweden’? A liberal utopia grapples with an identity crisis” by Lane Lambert (Harvard Business School, 2023-02-14).

Other

1. “Don’t let your strengths become your downfall” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-02-15).
2. “Eichmann in Jerusalem”, parts 1 and 2, by Hannah Arendt (The New Yorker, 1963-02).

Read : 2023-02-10

Articles for reading

1. “State of the Union Address” by Joe Biden (The White House, 2023-02-07).
2. “The French are in a panic over le Wokeism” by Thomas Chatterton Williams (The Atlantic, 2023-02-04).

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

1. “Mozilla explains: SIM swapping” by M.J. Kelly (Mozilla, 2021-04-07).

Economics

1. “Fed’s inflation fight pushes up cost of U.S. debt” by Andrew Duehren (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-10).
2. “Biden tells a deficit fairy tale” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-09).
3. “What to look for in the January 2023 consumer price inflation numbers” by Simon Moore (Forbes, 2023-02-07).
4. “Goldilocks economy is a fairy tale too good to be true” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-08).
5. “Canada’s balancing act” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-02-11).
6. “Putting America’s debt in its place” by Barry Eichengreen (Project Syndicate, 2023-02-09).

Investing

1. “Stock buybacks don’t really matter” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-02-08).

Politics

1. “State of the Union Address” by Joe Biden (The White House, 2023-02-07).

Science and technology

1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-02-10). On artificial intelligence—specifically, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Quora’s Poe—and high school pals Adam D’Angelo and Mark Zuckerberg.

Society

1. “The French are in a panic over le Wokeism” by Thomas Chatterton Williams (The Atlantic, 2023-02-04).

Other

1. “If loving you is wrong—let’s explore the ethics” by Clea Simon (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-02-10). An interview with Harvard philosophy professor Quinn White.

Read : 2023-02-03

Articles for reading

1. “Doing medical rounds on streets, alleys of Boston” by Tracy Kidder (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-01-20). Excerpts from “Rough sleepers”, by Tracy Kidder.
2. “Bacow counsels first-years to be ‘slow to judge, quick to understand’” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-08-30).
3. “Republicans are right that federal budgeting is a joke” (The Economist, 2023-02-02). Subtitled, “But threatening America’s credit is even dumber.”

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Economics

1. “Fed debates whether wages or low unemployment will drive inflation” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-29).
2. “Too soon for global optimism” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2023-01-31).
3. “What is superior inflation?” by Brian Whitton, Dion Rabouin (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-31).
4. “ADP national employment report: January 2023” (ADP, 2023-02-01). 106k net private jobs added in January 2022. Median year-over-year increase in pay was 7.3% for job-stayers and 15.4% for job=changers.
5. “FOMC press conference: February 1, 2023” (US Federal Reserve, 2023-02-01).
6. “Stock, bond and crypto investors bet Fed is bluffing on interest rates” by Akane Otani, Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-02).
7. “The morning” by Ben Casselman (The New York Times, 2023-02-02). Subtitled, “New data suggests a promising possibility for the economy—that the U.S. avoids big job losses.” Upbeat and vague.
8. “Rallying markets suffer from a doveish illusion” (The Economist, 2023-02-01).
9. “TikTok’s corecore and the Federal Reserve” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-02-02).
10. “The employment situation—January 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-02-03).
11. “Job openings and labor turnover—December 2022” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-02-01). JOLTS news release.
12. “Unemployment falls to 3.4%, lowest in 53 years, jobs report shows” by David Harrison (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-03).

Investing

1. “Short sellers feel the pain in stock market’s 2023 rally” by Jack Pitcher, Akane Otani (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-29).
2. “Investors shrug off weak earnings reports as stocks rebound to start year” by Hannah Miao (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-01).
3. “6 of the most shocking stock increases and falls” by Andrew Bloomenthal (Investopedia, 2022-09-20).
4. “The unusual crew behind Tether, crypto’s pre-eminent stablecoin” by Ben Foley, Ada Hui, Peter Rudegeair (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-02).
5. “Big tech didn’t quite clear the bar” by Dan Gallagher (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-02).
6. “Why you should stop caring about the Dow Jones Industrial Average” by Allan Sloan (Yahoo! Finance, 2023-02-03).

Mathematics

1. “Mathematicians eliminate long-standing threat to knot conjecture” by Leila Sloman (Quanta Magazine, 2023-02-02). Mathematicians mentioned include Kristen Hendricks, Jennifer Hom, JungHwan Park, and Arunima Ray.

Medicine

1. “Doing medical rounds on streets, alleys of Boston” by Tracy Kidder (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-01-20). Excerpts from “Rough sleepers”, by Tracy Kidder.

Politics

1. “Friend-shoring vs. ‘buy American’” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-01-31).
2. “Chinese spy balloon spotted over Montana: What to know” by Warren P. Strobel, Doug Cameron, James T. Areddy (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-03).
3. “Republicans are right that federal budgeting is a joke” (The Economist, 2023-02-02). Subtitled, “But threatening America’s credit is even dumber.”

Science and technology

1. “Has first person to live to be 150 been born?” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-01-30). Interview with Jae-Hyun Yang and David Sinclair.
2. “The enormous heat pumps warming cities” by Evie Townend (BBC, 2023-02-01).

Society

1. “The morning” by Nicholas Fandos (The New York Times, 2023-01-30). Subtitled, “A surge of migrants taking buses northward has led Mayor Eric Adams to describe New York City as close to a ‘breaking point’.”
2. “Utopia or bust” by J. Bradford DeLong (Project Syndicate, 2023-02-03).
3. “Are diversity statements a threat to academic freedom?” by Checks and Balances (The Economist, 2023-02-03). 39-minute audio podcast.

Other

1. “Is cycling safe?” by Anna Lamb (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-01-30). Assessment offered by Harvard Chan School researcher Anne Lusk.
2. “William James and a life worth living” by Jonathan Beasley (Harvard Divinity School, 2023-01-20). An interview with John Kaag.
3. “Bacow counsels first-years to be ‘slow to judge, quick to understand’” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-08-30).
4. “Balancing competitiveness and letting go” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-02-02).

Read : 2023-01-27

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “Translating the Bible is a vexed task, as a new book shows” (The Economist : Johnson, 2023-01-19).
2. “England’s 17th century was a ferment of ideas and revolution” (The Economist, 2023-01-26).

Cybersecurity

1. “FBI disrupts ‘Hive’ ransomware group” by Aruna Viswanatha, Dustin Volz (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-26).

Economics

1. “What if inflation comes down quickly?” by John Roberts (John Roberts Macroeconomics, 2022-12-09).
2. “Secular stagnation is not over” by Olivier Blanchard (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2023-01-24).
3. “Reversion to reality: How big tech impacts the economy” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-01-26).
4. “How not to fight inflation” by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Project Syndicate, 2023-01-26).
5. “Don’t blame covid for the worker shortage” by Justin Lahart (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-27).
6. “Inflation tracker: When will prices stop going up?” by Brian Whitton, Bourree Lam (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-12). Automatic aggregation and visual representation of data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly Consumer Price Index.
7. “Consumers tired of inflation scrimp—and splurge” by Rachel Wolfe (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-24).
8. “The world economy’s inflation problem is easing” (The Economist, 2023-01-26).

Mathematics

1. “The basic algebra behind secret codes and space communication” by Patrick Honner (Quanta Magazine, 2023-01-23). An introduction to Reed–Solomon codes.

Politics

1. “For the common good” by Mariana Mazzucato (Project Syndicate, 2023-01-27).

Science and technology

1. “Symbolic link vs. alias” (Stack Exchange, 2018-04-21).
2. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-01-27). On layoffs at Alphabet.

Society

1. “Vertical communities” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-01-27).
2. “Can you flirt better than artificial intelligence?” by Sara Ashley O’Brien (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-27).

Other

1. “Good enough vs. great” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-01-26). Being consistently “good enough” day after day, year after year, leads to being “great”.
2. “Mother Earth mother board” by Neal Stephenson (WIRED, 1996-12-01).

Read : 2023-01-24

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

1. “Breaking RSA with a quantum computer” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-01-03).
2. “Identifying people using cell phone location data” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-01-09).

Economics

1. “Incomes are rising in America, especially for the poorest” (The Economist, 2023-01-15).
2. “China and the sovereign-debt bomb” by Anne O. Krueger (Project Syndicate, 2023-01-13).
3. “Why investors may be too optimistic about inflation” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-12).
4. “A Q&A with Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum” (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-13).
5. “The core story of American inflation” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-01-17).
6. “Fed talks: A conversation with St. Louis Fed President James Bullard” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-18). Thirty-minute video interview.
7. “Could Europe end up with a worse inflation problem than America?” (The Economist, 2023-01-19).
8. “Japan’s extraordinarily expensive defence of its monetary policy” (The Economist, 2023-01-18).
9. “What even is a ‘mild’ recession?” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-01-19).
10. “Will the Fed overdo it?” by Raghuram G. Rajan (Project Syndicate, 2023-01-24).

Investing

1. “A crypto collapse and the end of the magical thinking that infected capitalism” by Mihir A. Desai (The New York Times, 2023-01-16).

Medicine

1. “Loss of epigenetic information can drive aging, restoration can reverse it” by Stephanie Dutchen (Harvard Medical School News, 2023-01-12).

Politics

1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-01-13). On noncompete clauses, Lina Khan, and the Federal Trade Commission.
2. “Biden administration’s big manufacturing push could transform global trade” by Yuka Hayashi (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-12).
3. “Who is going to police the new world trading system?” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-14).
4. “Why this debt-ceiling fight is different” by Jeffrey Frankel (Project Syndicate, 2023-01-19).

Science and technology

1. “How technology can fight digital fakery” (The Economist : Babbage, 2023-01-18). 40-minute podcast.
2. “This 22-year-old is trying to save us from ChatGPT before it changes writing forever” by Greg Rosalsky, Emma Peaslee (NPR : Planet Money, 2023-01-17).
3. “These simple design rules could turn the chip industry on its head” by Sophia Chen (MIT Technology Review, 2023-01-24). On RISC-V instruction set.
4. “The Sino-American tech trap” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2023-01-24).

Society

1. “The problem(s) with China’s population drop” by Paul Krugman (The New York Times, 2023-01-17).
2. “Actually, Japan has changed a lot” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-01-24). A response to the farewell essay by the BBC’s outgoing Tokyo correspondent, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.

Other

1. “Feeling stressed? Zoom out.” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-01-19).

Read : 2023-01-07

Articles for reference

Economics

1. “ADP National Employment Report : December 2022” (ADP, 2023-01-05).
2. “The Fed is hiking up that mountain” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-01-05).
3. “Three economic happenings of note” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-01-17).

Investing

1. “Corporate insiders aren’t betting on a market rebound” by Jack Pitcher (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-05).

Politics

1. “It’s tempting to laugh at McCarthy’s struggles, but history shows that this type of chaos is not a joke” by Joanne B. Freeman (The New York Times, 2023-01-07).

Other

1. “The benefits of perfectly imperfect practice” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-01-05).

Read : 2023-01-01

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

1. “NIST retires SHA-1 cryptographic algorithm” (NIST, 2022-12-15).

Economics

1. “Another annus horribilis for the Fed” by Mohamed A. El-Erian (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-19).
2. “Treasury rally to be tested by Fed’s next move” by Sam Goldfarb, Matt Grossman (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-19).
3. “Investors, big-company CEOs split on economic optimism, survey says” by Theo Francis (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-20).
4. “Is a global recession really around the corner?” by Jeffrey Frankel (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-22).
5. “Don’t call it a pivot” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-12-15).
6. “2022 was really weird” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2022-12-22).
7. “The Federal Reserve’s great anti-hero deserves a second look” (The Economist, 2022-12-20).
8. “Loretta Mester on economic outlook and monetary policy” by Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance (YouTube, 2022-11-10). Talk by Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester.
9. “Massive government borrowing looms over European markets” by Chelsey Dulaney (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-23).
10. “Supply chains upended by covid are back to normal” by Esther Fung, Costas Paris, Sharon Terlep (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-23).
11. “A China optimist’s lament” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-22).
12. “Unlearning the macroeconomic lessons of the 2010s” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-12-23).
13. “The great inflation of the 1500s is echoing eerily today” (The Economist, 2022-12-20).
14. “Monetary policy in a shortage economy” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-12-24).
15. “More war means more inflation” by Nouriel Roubini (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-30).
16. “What does a labor shortage mean?” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-12-31).

Investing

1. “U.S. scores $4 billion windfall on oil-reserve sales” by David Uberti (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-19). Fine by me. (Reduce that national debt!) But right now it’s paper profit. For reference, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) releases, with a two-month delay, ending stocks of crude oil in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
2. “Individual investors hang on in wild year for stocks while pros sell” by Gunjan Banerji (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-18).
3. “Why this housing downturn isn’t like the last one” by Ben Eisen, Nicole Friedman (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-18).
4. “Binance is trying to calm investors, but its finances remain a mystery” by Jonathan Weil (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-10).
5. “Netfllix’s ad-supported tier was its least popular plan, analytics firm estimates” by Sarah Krouse (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-20).
6. “Market chill opens path for buyout lender Sixth Street’s rise” by Matt Wirz (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-23).
7. “Six ways to protect your money in 2023” by Imani Moise, Joe Pinsker, Ashlea Ebeling, Veronica Dagher, Anne Tergesen (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-23).
8. “Wall Street breakfast: Stockings stuffed with stocks” (Seeking Alpha, 2022-12-23). Respondents to Seeking Alpha’s poll generally more upbeat than Wall Street strategists on expected returns from the US stock market in 2023.

Mathematics

1. “The year in math” by Konstantin Kakaes (Quanta Magazine, 2022-12-22).

Medicine

1. “Winter surge: SARS-CoV-2, RSV, and the flu” by Dennis Nealon (Harvard Medical School News, 2022-12-16).
2. “Why loss of smell can persist after covid-19” (Duke Health News Office, 2022-12-21).
3. “A new variant alert” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2022-12-23). On the XBB.1.5 covid-19 variant.

Politics

1. “Biden and Congress still haven’t made inflation central in budget matters” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-22).
2. “Sleepwalking into a global trade war” by Anne O. Krueger (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-22).

Science and technology

1. “The Victorian vision of disruption is a tech bro fantasy” by Swan Rhys Morus (Zócalo, 2022-12-19).
2. GitHub repository for OSV-Scanner (GitHub).
3. “Leaked a secret? Check your GitHub alerts…for free” by Mariam Sulakian, Zain Malik (GitHub : Blog, 2022-12-15). Update to GitHub’s secret scanning program.
4. “The enduring value of an analogue technology” (The Economist, 2022-12-15).
5. “The third magic” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-01-01).

Society

1. “Keeping up with the Joneses 2.0” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-12-16).
2. “Facebook and the problem of truth” by Clea Simon (Harvard Law Today, 2022-12-15).
3. “Elon Musk’s $44bn education in free speech” (The Economist, 2022-12-19).
4. “The morning” by Nicholas Fandos (The New York Times, 2022-12-21). Subtitled, “New York City’s new policy for hospitalizing some people living on the streets has stoked a debate over how America treats the severely mentally ill.”
5. “Plaintext” by Alan Henry (WIRED, 2022-12-24). On Twitter and Elon Musk.
6. “Billionaires are a security threat” by Vijith Assar (WIRED, 2022-12-20).

Other

1. “The end of Netflix password sharing is nigh” by Sarah Krouse, Jessica Toonkel (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-21).

Read : 2022-12-17

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “The best dressed guests at the 2022 British Fashion Awards” by Alice Cary (Vogue, 2022-12-05).

Cybersecurity

1. “What to know about getting a job in cybersecurity” by Lisa Ward (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-05).
2. “The NSA is building the country’s biggest spy center (watch what you say)” by James Bamford (WIRED, 2012-03-15).

Economics

1. “All pain and no gain from higher interest rates” by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-08).
2. “Rising interest rates and inflation have upended investing” (The Economist, 2022-12-08).
3. “Investing in an era of higher interest rates and scarcer capital” (The Economist, 2022-12-08).
4. “Inflation is falling—but not enough” (The Economist, 2022-12-07).
5. “A playbook from the 1980s for dealing with inflation” (The Economist, 2022-12-01).
6. “New year, new Congress, new economic risks” by Michael J. Boskin (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-16).
7. “A non-zero interest rate world” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2022-12-17).
8. “The 2023 macro outlook” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-12-17).

Investing

1. “A time for TIPS” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal : The Intelligent Investor, 2022-12-06).
2. “DOJ, SEC charge eight social-media influencers for alleged securities fraud” by Jennifer Calfas (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-14). Individuals who build up large followings on social media use those followers to their personal advantage?!
3. “SEC proposes rules that would squeeze stock-market middlemen” by Paul Kiernan, Alexander Osipovich (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-14). Four proposals that would affect securities wholesalers.
4. “GameStop mania drives scrutiny of payments to online brokers” by Alexander Osipovich (The Wall Street Journal, 2021-02-04).
5. “Netflix lets advertisers take their money back after missing viewership targets” by Tim Peterson (Digiday, 2022-12-15).

Politics

1. “Striving for impassioned, but reasoned, post-Roe conversation on abortion” by Clea Simon (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-12-05).
2. “Amendments should start with states” by Stephen Sachs, via Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-12-05).
3. “What Democrats—and Republicans—can learn from Raphael Warnock” (The Economist, 2022-12-08).
4. “Migrant surge at border strains El Paso” by Alicia A. Caldwell (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-15).

Sports

1. “NWSL report recommends tough rules regulating player-coach interactions” by Rachel Bachman, Louise Radnofsky (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-14).

Volleyball

1. “The play that defines Kenzie Maloney’s career—and saved Nebraska’s season” by Jeff Sheldon (Wayne Daily News, 2018-11-23).
2. “UH v South Dakota” (Twitter, 2022-12-05).
3. “Nebraska v Penn State” by Big Ten Network (YouTube, 2020-09-24). 50s first-set point from their match on 2018-11-02.

Other

1. “You found out your co-worker makes more. Can you ask for a raise?” by Rachel Feintzeig (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-05).
2. “Harvard names Claudine Gay 30th president” (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-12-15).
3. “Edward Snowden swears allegiance to Russia and receives passport, lawyer says” by Natalia Abbakumova, Adela Suliman (The Washington Post, 2022-12-02).

Read : 2022-12-01

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “Margot Robbie’s 25 best beauty looks of all time” by Hannah Coates (Vogue, 2022-11-21). My suggestion: Ignore the titular superlatives and focus on the fashion.
2. “Hollywood’s messaging problem: Sometimes people feel insulted” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-12-01). Academics discuss “satire, misinformation, and climate change through the lens of the 2021 film ‘Don’t look up'”.

Cybersecurity

1. “Lessons from Russia’s cyber-war in Ukraine” (The Economist, 2022-11-30).

Economics

1. “Inflation and the labor market” by Jerome Powell (US Federal Reserve, 2022-11-30).
2. “The unavoidable crash” by Nouriel Roubini (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-02).
3. “Has private equity avoided the asset-price crash?” (The Economist, 2022-12-01).
4. “The contested Fed” by James Livingston (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-02).
5. “The Fed is now relying on a miracle to save the economy” by Karl W. Smith (Bloomberg via The Washington Post, 2022-12-01).

Medicine

1. “A drug for Alzheimer’s disease that seems to work” (The Economist, 2022-11-30).
2. “How to pay for universal health care” (The Economist, 2022-12-01). 14m video.
3. “The new covid wave” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2022-12-03).

Politics

1. “Chinese protests spread over government’s covid restrictions” by Lingling Wei, Brian Spegele, Wenxin Fan (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-11-28).
2. “A missed opportunity in Bali” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2022-11-28).
3. “As Xi tightens grip, China’s streets unexpectedly fill with protests” (Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center, 2022-11-28). An interview with Tony Saich, “director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at the Kennedy School’s Ash Center”.
4. “What 1989 can teach us about the recent protests in China” (The Economist, 2022-12-01).
5. “The prince: Searching for Xi Jinping” by Sue Lin-Wong (The Economist, 2022-09–2022-11). Eight-part podcast (about 45m each).

Science and technology

1. “Does thermal paste expire? Useful life explained” by Ruby Cobb (Rocky MTN Ruby, 2021-09-10).
2. “Elon Musk’s Neuralink set to ‘show and tell’ latest brain-computer advances at event” by Daniela Hernandez (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-11-30).
3. “A quick and dirty guide to RAM: What you need to know” by Gavin Phillips (MUO, 2022-09-06).

Society

1. “Killing Twitter” by Antara Haldar (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-01).

Other

1. “Word Matters” a Merriam-Webster podcast hosted by Emily Brewster, Ammon Shea, Peter Sokolowski (Merriam-Webster).
2. “Plaintext” by Lauren Goode (WIRED, 2022-12-02).
3. “Is paid Substack for you? Why I pulled the plug on my successful subscription” by Kelly Eden (LinkedIn, 2022-03-23).