A brief gallivant about the marketplace of ideas.
Tag: dictatorship
Articles for reading
“How French intellectuals ruined the West ” by Helen Pluckrose (Quillette, 2024-05-07; republished from Aero Magazine, 2017-03).
“What people got wrong about the film Parasite ” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2022-03-31).
Articles for reference
Business and investing
“The smartest people in the room are all listening to the same podcast ” by Ben Cohen (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-10).
“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
“Businesses, government see progress in cyber hiring, with exceptions ” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-10).
Education
“Against mandatory DEI statements ” by Randall Kennedy (Persuasion, 2024-05-10).
“How French intellectuals ruined the West ” by Helen Pluckrose (Quillette, 2024-05-07; republished from Aero Magazine, 2017-03).
Law
“Stephen Breyer for the defense ” (Harvard Law Bulletin, 2024-05-03).
Mathematics
“What makes 4D weirder than all other dimensions? ” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-05-13).
Politics
“Nayib Bukele shows how to dismantle a democracy and stay popular ” (The Economist, 2023-07-20).
“Robin DiAngelo’s misreading of Michel Foucault ” by Jonathan Church (Quillette, 2020-11-25).
Science
“Epic science inside a cubic millimeter of brain ” by Anne J. Manning (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-09).
Society
“Welcome to anti-woke hell ” by Zaid Jilani (Persuasion, 2024-05-13).
“Plaintext ” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-05-10). On “The anxious generation”, by Jonathan Haidt.
“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).
“Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich ” (The Economist, 2024-04-16). The story averages tell, and the stories they do not.
“What people got wrong about the film Parasite ” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2022-03-31).
Technology
“Kate Crawford: A leading scholar and conscience for A.I. ” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-12). 51m video recording with transcript.
“The death (again) of the internet as we know it ” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-11).
Other
“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.