Read : 2024-05-13

by shwolff

Articles for reading

  1. “How French intellectuals ruined the West” by Helen Pluckrose (Quillette, 2024-05-07; republished from Aero Magazine, 2017-03).
  2. “What people got wrong about the film Parasite” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2022-03-31).

Articles for reference

Business and investing

  1. “The smartest people in the room are all listening to the same podcast” by Ben Cohen (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-10).
  2. “How did Jim Simons’s firm make $100 billion? He told his secrets to our reporter” by Gregory Zuckerman (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-10).

Cybersecurity

  1. “Businesses, government see progress in cyber hiring, with exceptions” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-10).

Education

  1. “Against mandatory DEI statements” by Randall Kennedy (Persuasion, 2024-05-10).
  2. “How French intellectuals ruined the West” by Helen Pluckrose (Quillette, 2024-05-07; republished from Aero Magazine, 2017-03).

Law

  1. “Stephen Breyer for the defense” (Harvard Law Bulletin, 2024-05-03).

Mathematics

  1. “What makes 4D weirder than all other dimensions?” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-05-13).

Politics

  1. “Nayib Bukele shows how to dismantle a democracy and stay popular” (The Economist, 2023-07-20).
  2. “Robin DiAngelo’s misreading of Michel Foucault” by Jonathan Church (Quillette, 2020-11-25).

Science

  1. “Epic science inside a cubic millimeter of brain” by Anne J. Manning (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-09).

Society

  1. “Welcome to anti-woke hell” by Zaid Jilani (Persuasion, 2024-05-13).
  2. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-05-10). On “The anxious generation”, by Jonathan Haidt.
  3. “Jonathan Haidt blamed tech for teen anxiety. Managing the blowback has become a full-time job.” by Julie Jargon (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-10).
  4. “Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich” (The Economist, 2024-04-16). The story averages tell, and the stories they do not.
  5. “What people got wrong about the film Parasite” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2022-03-31).

Technology

  1. “Kate Crawford: A leading scholar and conscience for A.I.” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-12). 51m video recording with transcript.
  2. “The death (again) of the internet as we know it” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-11).

Other

  1. “The morning” by Joseph Kahn (The New York Times, 2024-05-12). Subtitled, “Journalism with impact”, it congratulates the New York Times for industry prizes, for self-styled “[c]overage that demands attention”. Awards and honors in the attention economy.