Read : 2024-06-06

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “NYC Ballet’s Mira Nadon on George Balanchine’s Rubies: Anatomy of a dance” by nycballet (YouTube, 2023-09-06).
2. “Why dancers love performing Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’” by Royal Opera House (YouTube, 2017-04-12).

Books

1. “Imposing order on grief” by Iona Italia (Quillette, 2024-05-22). A review of Rob Henderson’s book “Troubled”.

Business and investing

1. “Should you buy expensive stocks?” (The Economist, 2024-06-05).
2. “Bit Tech companies unplug stock market from reality” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
3. “How to write the perfect CV” (The Economist, 2024-05-30).
4. “When to sell your stocks” (The Economist, 2024-05-30).
5. “AI skills bring higher pay, more interview offers, study says” by Carolyn Crist (CIO Dive, 2024-05-24).
6. “ISC2 reveals global ISC2 certification salaries” (ISC2, 2024-05-07). Note that regional aggregation masks within-region differences in cost of living.
7. “Meme stocks are a thing—again” by Hannah Miao, Gunjan Banerji (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-08-05).

Cybersecurity

1. “CVE exploits, stolen credentials fueled ransomware surge in 2023” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-06-04).
2. “China is ‘prepositioning’ for future cyberattacks—and the new NSA chief is worried” by Niharika Mandhana, Gordon Fairclough (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
3. “‘She hooked me’: How an online scam cost a senior citizen his life’s savings” by Felix Solomon (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-02).
4. “Detecting and preventing unauthorized user access” by Brad Jones (Snowflake, 2024-06-02).
5. “NIST has a plan to clear the vulnerability analysis backlog” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-31). That plan is: Hire a government contractor.
6. “Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2024-05-30).
7. “Critical CVEs are going under-analyzed as NIST falls behind” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-28).
8. “Hackers created rogue VMs to evade detection in recent MITRE cyber attack” by Newsroom (The Hacker News, 2024-05-24).
9. “CVE exploitation nearly tripled in 2023, Verizon finds” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-01).

Economics

1. “ADP national employment report—May 2024” (ADP Research Institute, 2024-06-05).
2. “Why China’s overcapacity problem is about to get even worse, in seven charts” by Nathaniel Taplin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
3. “Is America’s economy heading for a consumer crunch?” (The Economist, 2024-06-04).
4. “Job openings and labor turnover—April 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-06-04).
5. “Personal income and outlays, April 2024” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2024-05-31).

Education

1. “Google invests $15M to train new cyber pros” by Sam Sabin (Axios, 2024-06-04).
2. “Next up for House renewal: Eliot” by Eileen O’Grady (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-30).
3. “Deep reading will save your soul” by William Deresiewicz (Persuasion, 2024-05-29).
4. “When should Harvard speak out?” by Jessica McCann (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-28). An interview with Alison Simmons and Noah Feldman of the Harvard Institutional Voice Working Group.
5. “Institutional voice” by Alan M. Garber et al. (Harvard : Office of the President, 2024-05-28).

Health, medicine, and wellness

1. “Tom Cech: RNA takes center stage” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-06-05). 49m audio recording with transcript; link to video recording.
2. “Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in 5 key points” by Alina Chan (The New York Times, 2024-06-03).
3. “Long covid at 3 years” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-30).
4. “Venki Ramakrishnan: The new science of aging” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-28). 50 m audio recording with transcript.

Law

1. “The Supreme Court is about to decide the future of free speech” by Nadine Strossen (Persuasion, 2024-06-04).

Politics : BGP

1. “FCC vote on tap for rules to secure fundamental component of the internet” by Tim Starks (CyberScoop, 2024-06-04).
2. “FCC wants rules for ‘most important part of the internet you’ve probably never heard of’” by Tim Starks (CyberScoop, 2024-04-24).

Politics : Computer chips

1. “Asia’s chip giants hustle to maintain their edge over the U.S.” by Jiyoung Sohn, Yang Jie (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-05).
2. “The goal for China’s chip giant: Cut out the U.S.” by Yoko Kubota (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
3. “The U.S. gave chip makers billions. Now comes the hard part.” by Asa Fitch (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-02).
4. “The global chips battle, in charts” by Nate Rattner, Jiyoung Sohn (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-02).

Politics : India

1. “The morning” by Alex Travelli (The New York Times, 2024-06-06). Subtitled, “Modi’s choices”.
2. “A triumph for Indian democracy” (The Economist, 2024-06-05).
3. “India’s surprising election results a ‘watershed moment’” by Daniel Harsha (Harvard Kennedy School : Ash Center, 2024-06-04). Q&A with Professor Gautam Nair.

Politics : Mexico

1. “Claudia Sheinbaum has won Mexico’s presidency in a landslide” (The Economist, 2024-06-03).
2. “Mexico’s new president is an enigma” by Quico Toro (Persuasion, 2024-06-03).

Politics : Trump’s NY trial

1. “William Galston on 2024 and Trump’s conviction” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-06-01). 1h29m audio recording with transcript.
2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times 2024-05-31). Subtitled, “We’re covering Trump’s conviction…”.
3. “Donald Trump found guilty on all 34 counts in New York hush-money case” by Corinne Ramey, James Fanelli (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-31).
4. “A guilty verdict for Trump and its consequences for the country” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-30).

Politics : Other

1. “Why no one will save Sudan” by Cameron Hudson (Persuasion, 2024-06-05).
2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-06-05). Subtitled, “The asylum loophole”.
3. “The sad case of Hunter Biden” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-05).
4. “Merrick Garland, three special counsels and a Justice Department under fire” by Sadie Gurman, Aruna Viswanatha (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
5. “Hong Kong smothers dissent ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary” (The Economist, 2024-06-03).
6. “Trump conviction and Biden tapes put new pressure on Mike Johnson” by Katy Stech Farek (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
7. “Israel, Palestine, and the sub-rational” by Michael G. Holzman (Persuasion, 2024-05-31).
8. “Happy fun Cold War 2 update” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-29).
9. “Blacklisted Chinese companies rebrand as American to dodge crackdown” by Heather Somerville (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-29).
10. “How to live in a world where Trump is winning” by Quico Toro (Persuasion, 2024-05-28).
11. “AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board” by Helen Toner, Tasha McCauley (The Economist, 2024-05-26).

Science

1. “Biologists are unfolding life’s molecular shapes” by Yasemin Saplakoglu (Quanta Magazine, 2024-05-28).

Society

1. “How many of our ‘facts’ about society, health, and the economy are fake?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-06-06). Paywalled.
2. “Does curiosity make you read more hard news? How about anxiety?” by Joshua Benton (Nieman Lab, 2024-06-04).
3. “Don’t be a stranger: The power of renewing old friendships” by Rob Henderson (The Boston Globe, 2024-05-29).
4. “Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2021-03-28).

Technology

1. “The AI revolution is already losing steam” by Christopher Mims (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-31).
2. “The Daylight tablet returns computing to its hippie ideals” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-05-31).
3. “Can Elon Musk’s xAI take on OpenAI?” (The Economist, 2024-05-29).
4. “These Internet browsers promise privacy. What does that actually mean?” by Cheryl Winokur Munk (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-28).
5. “Big Tech’s budding AI monopoly” by William P. Barr (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-27).
6. “Don’t believe the biggest myth about heat pumps” by Matt Simon (WIRED, 2024-05-24).
7. “Privacy experts sound the alarm over Microsoft’s latest AI tool” by Samantha Kelly (CNN, 2024-05-22).

Other

1. “The struggle makes the reward” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-06-05).
2. “The best noise-canceling headphones” by Nick Guy, Geoffrey Morrison (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
3. “Take the work seriously. Yourself? Not so much.” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-05-28).
4. “Reflections on Sozhenitsyn’s Harvard address” by Sergiu Klainerman (Quillette, 2020-10-24).

Read : 2024-05-28

Articles for reading

1. “Mexican democracy hangs in the balance” by Enrique Krauze (Persuasion, 2024-05-27).
2. “Canada’s assault on free speech” by Jeffrey Cieslikowsky (Persuasion, 2024-05-23).
3. “Here’s how to put a country back together” by Eboo Patel (Persuasion, 2024-05-22).

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “The morning” by Sarah Diamond (The New York Times, 2024-05-27). Subtitled, “From audition to boot camp”.
2. “The hit series ‘Bridgerton’ has set off a string-quartet boom” (The Economist, 2024-05-20).
3. “Publishers aren’t in trouble—writers are” by Elle Griffin (Persuasion, 2024-05-20).

Books

1. “In this economy book: The why and how” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2024-05-17).
2. “Five novels that imagine dictatorship in America” (The Economist 2024-05-15).

Business and investing

1. “What entry-level jobs really look like today” by Lindsay Ellis, Kara Dapena (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-21).
2. “Market froth is getting extreme. Just look at meme stocks.” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-17).
3. “Investors are striking gold all over” by Gregory Zuckerman, Gunjan Banerji (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-17).
4. “Called back to the office? How you benefit from ideas you didn’t know you were missing” by Ben Rand (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2024-05-09).
5. “The rise of large-language-model optimization” by Bruce Schneier, Judith Donath (The Atlantic, via Schneier on Security, 2024-04-25).
6. “The untold story: How the iPhone blew up the wireless industry” by Fred Vogelstein (WIRED, 2008-01-09).

Cybersecurity

1. “CyberArk to acquire Venafi for $1.5 billion as cyber market shows signs of recovery” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-21).
2. “It is dangerously easy to hack the world’s phones” (The Economist, 2024-05-17).
3. “UK outlaws awful default passwords on connected devices” by Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica, 2024-04-29).
4. “GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs” by Lawrence Abrams (Bleeping Computer, 2024-04-20).
5. “New lattice cryptanalytic technique” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2024-04-15). Retracted as of 2024-04-20.
6. “Open Source Security (OpenSSF) and OpenJS Foundations issue alert for social engineering takeovers of open source projects” by Robin Bender Ginn, Omkhar Arasaratnam (OpenJS Foundation, 2024-04-??).

Economics

1. “Central banks’ new-old inflationary bias” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2024-05-27).
2. “A detailed look at Biden’s new China tariffs” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-05-25).
3. “In which British writers scold America on trade” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-21).
4. “The myth of central-bank independence” by Robert Skidelsky (Project Syndicate, 2024-05-20).
5. “Why is China producing so many export goods, anyway?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-17).
6. “Consumer price index—April 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-05-15).
7. “America’s manufacturing productivity problem” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-05-14).
8. “Producer price indexes—April 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-05-14).
9. “The big tariffs are here” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-14).

Education : Protests at Harvard

1. “I led The Crimson through historic backlash. Now, Harvard’s Pro-Palestine protestors face worse.” by Raquel Coronell Uribe (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-23).
2. “Harvard Corporation rejects FAS effort to let 13 pro-Palestine student protestors graduate” by Emma H. Haidar, Cam E. Kettles (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-22).

   Monday’s faculty vote did not, however, revisit these disciplinary rulings, did not purport to engage in the individualized assessment of each case that would ordinarily be required to do so, and, most importantly, did not claim to restore the students to good standing.

3. “Harvard Corporation rules thirteen students cannot graduate” (Harvard Magazine, 2024-05-22).
4. “Dissent: There is no Palestine exception” by Jacob M. Miller (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-21).
5. “A Palestine exception to Commencement” by The Crimson Editorial Board (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-21).
6. “Harvard faculty overwhelmingly vote to allow seniors disciplined over encampment to graduate” by Tilly R. Robinson, Neil H. Shah (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-20). Buried in the article is the fact that “the faculty” refers to the 115 voting faculty members—out of 888 total—who chose to attend the meeting. (The authors note this turnout is “unusually high”.) I did not see the number of votes for and against presented. (It may have been a voice vote.)
7. “Update on encampment in Harvard Yard” by Alan M. Garber (Harvard University, 2024-05-14).

Education : Other

1. “Time to stand up, defend American higher education, Faust says” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-21).
2. “‘Free and brave’: Defending universities and the rule of truth” by Drew Gilpin Faust (Harvard Magazine, 2024-05-21).
3. “Time is running out to fix America’s student-aid mess” (The Economist, 2024-05-21).
4. “Um…where is everybody?” by Elaine McArdle (Harvard GSE : Education Magazine, 2024-05-08).

Health, medicine, and wellness

1. “Anger does a lot more damage to your body than you realize” by Sumathi Reddy (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-22).
2. “Everything counts!” by Kira Sampson (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-20). On measuring activity in steps versus time.
3. “Ultra-processed foods—some more than others—linked to early death” (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2024-05-15).
4. “‘No safe amount of exposure’ to gas stove pollution” (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2024-05-14).

Law

1. “A Supreme Court victory for the administrative state” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-16).

Politics

1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-05-23). Subtitled, “We’re covering Biden’s immigration policy…”.
2. “The Israelis prove Biden wrong on Rafah” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-22).
3. “How liberal democracy might lose the 21st century” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-22). Paywalled.
4. “Le Pen’s hard right looks set to crush Macron’s centrists” (The Economist, 2024-05-22).
5. “The morning” by Azam Ahmed (The New York Times, 2024-05-22). Subtitled, “America’s monster”. On Afghanistan.
6. “Prosecuting Netanyahu has risks for International Criminal Court” by Jess Bravin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-21).
7. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-05-20). Subtitled, “We’re covering ‘neopopulism’…”.
8. “Debating Trump is a mistake” by John McWhorter (Persuasion, 2024-05-17).
9. “American IT scammer helped North Korea fund nuclear weapons program, U.S. says” by Mariah Timms, Dustin Volz (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-16).
10. “Why America is vulnerable to a despot” (The Economist, 2024-05-16).
11. “Is America dictator-proof?” (The Economist, 2024-05-16).
12. “Joe Biden, master oil trader” (The Economist, 2024-05-16).

Society

1. “Mexican democracy hangs in the balance” by Enrique Krauze (Persuasion, 2024-05-27).
2. “Canada’s assault on free speech” by Jeffrey Cieslikowsky (Persuasion, 2024-05-23).
3. “Here’s how to put a country back together” by Eboo Patel (Persuasion, 2024-05-22).
4. “Nellie Bowles on how the revolution went mainstream” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-05-18). 1h09m audio recording with transcript.
5. “How The New York Times went woke” by Nellie Bowles (Persuasion, 2024-05-15).
6. “For political journalists, neutrality isn’t the goal” by Marisa Lagos (Zócalo, 2024-05-16).

Read : 2024-04-07

Articles for reading

1. “Hacker answers penetration test questions from Twitter” (WIRED, 2023-09-12). 12m video recording with transcript.

Articles for reference

Athletics

1. “To perform under pressure, shift your perspective” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-14).

Books

1. “Daniel Kahneman’s final exploration of human error” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-03-31).
2. “A new book rebukes the ‘luxury beliefs’ of America’s upper class” (The Economist, 2024-03-21). On Rob Henderson’s book, “Troubled”.
3. “Go read some Vernor Vinge” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-03-21).
4. “How to calm The Anxious Generation” by Maura Kelly (Harvard Public Health, 2024-03-20). An overview of Jonathan Haidt’s book, “The anxious generation”.
5. “The rise of Western individualism” by Rob Hendreson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-03-17). A review of “The WEIRDest people in the world”, by Joseph Henrich.
6. “How worried should people be about Generation Z?” (The Economist, 2024-03-15). Book reviews of “The anxious generation” and “Bad therapy”.
7. “Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn on Einstein on Einstein” by Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn (Princeton University Press, 2020-05-18).

Business and investing

1. “The psychologist who turned the investing world on its head” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-29). On Daniel Kahneman.
2. “As markets soar, should investors look beyond America?” (The Economist, 2024-03-24).
3. “More than half of new jobs in math occupations expected to be for data scientists” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-14).
4. “Is the bull market about to turn into a bubble?” (The Economist, 2024-03-11).

Cybersecurity

1. “A stealth attack came close to compromising the world’s computers” (The Economist, 2024-04-02). On the malware uncovered in XZ utils.
2. “What we know about the XZ Utils backdoor that almost infected the world” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2024-04-01).
3. “Red Hat warns of backdoor in widely used Linux utility” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-04-01).
4. “U.S. publishes draft federal rules for cyber incident reporting” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-27).
5. “More warnings emerge about state-linked cyber threats to water infrastructure” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-03-20).
6. “What to read to understand cyber-security” (The Economist, 2024-02-29).
7. “Cyber incident reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA) reporting requirements” (US Department of Homeland Security, 2024-??-??).
8. “Hacker answers penetration test questions from Twitter” (WIRED, 2023-09-12). 12m video recording with transcript.
9. “North Korea hacked him. So he took down its Internet” by Andy Greenberg (WIRED, 2022-02-02).

Economics

1. “The employment situation—March 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-04-05).
2. “The Federal Reserve cleans up its money-printing mess” (The Economist, 2024-04-04).
3. “Central banks have spent down their credibility” (The Economist, 2024-04-03).
4. “ADP national employment report—March 2024” (ADP Research Institute, 2024-04-03).
5. “Job openings and labor turnover—February 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-04-02).
6. “Information about the information industry’s productivity and growth” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-04-02).
7. “The decade of the second China shock” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-03-23).
8. “Why ‘Freakonomics’ failed to transform economics” (The Economist, 2024-03-21).
9. “Total factor productivity—2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-21).
10. “Why America can’t escape inflation worries” (The Economist, 2024-03-20).
11. “How we could return to the productivity growth of the 1990s” by Preston Mui (Noahpinion, 2024-03-18).
12. “Producer price indices—February 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-14).
13. “Consumer price index—February 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-12).
14. “What soft landing?” by Michael R. Strain (Project Syndicate, 2024-03-11).
15. “The employment situation—February 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-08).
16. “The shift that explains lofty markets: The economy got more productive” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-07).
17. “ADP national employment report” (ADP, 2024-03-06). Change in US private employment for February 2024: 140k. Employment for January revised up, from 107k to 110k. Pay gains: for job-stayers, decreased to 5.1%; for job-changers, increased from 7.2% to 7.6%.
18. “Job openings and labor turnover—January 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-06).

Education

1. “The morning” by Sarah Mervosh (The New York Times, 2024-03-29). Subtitled, “We’re covering a crisis of school absenteeism…”.
2. “Should universities be taking official stances on political, social issues of day?” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-06).

Health, medicine, and wellness

1. “” by A big week for GLP-1 drugs (Eric Topol, 2024-04-06).
2. “Daniel Drucker: Illuminating the GLP-1 drug’s break out” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-04-06). 37m audio recording with transcript.
3. “Covid, 4 years on” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-03-13).
4. “Potential link to an everyday food in cancer findings” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-06).
5. “There’s plastic in my plaque!” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-03-06).
6. “5 ways poor sleep affects the body” by Katie McCallum (Houston Methodist, 2024-02-29).

Law

1. “‘What ultimately matters is the substance of the analytical framework…whether that framework is called Chevron’ or not” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2024-04-02). Aditya Bamzai on the Chevron doctrine.
2. “The Supreme Court and mifepristone” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-25).
3. “Why separate powers?” (Harvard Law Today, 2024-03-14).

Mathematics

1. “Collaboration is changing math for the better” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magaine, 2024-03-25).
2. “Math that connects where we’re going to where we’ve been” by Patrick Honner (Quanta Magazine, 2024-03-22). On recursion.
3. “Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-03-20).
4. “How the world takes shape” by Paul Massari (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2024-03-15). An interview with Jordan Ellenberg.
5. “‘The rest of the world disappears’: Claire Voisin on mathematical creativity” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-03-13).
6. “Unfolding the mysteries of polygonal billiards” by David S. Richeson (Quanta Magazine, 2024-02-15).

Politics

1. “This Korean election shows how fragile our democracy is” by Jung-Ok Lee (Zócalo, 2024-04-04).

   The lesson from Korea is that establishing democratic structures and institutions is not enough to have real democracy. Real democracy requires deep participation from across society.

2. “Intel and industrial policy in action” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-03).
3. “Jonathan Lynn on how government works (and “Yes, Minister”)” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-03-23). 60m audio recording with transcript.
4. “America is sliding toward Chinese-style capitalism” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-21).
5. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-03-21). Subtitled “We’re covering the rightward shift among voters of color…”.
6. “We’re falling into Trump’s trap…again” by Sam Kahn (Persuasion, 2024-03-18).
7. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-03-15). Subtitled, “We’re covering a new Times Magazine story on affirmative action…”.
8. “China, the West, and The three-body problem” by Jason Garshfield (Quillette, 2024-03-15).
9. “‘Dune’ is a warning about political heroes and their tribes” (The Economist, 2024-03-14).
10. “What just happened in San Francisco politics?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-03-13).
11. “What Nikki Haley accomplished” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-06).

Science

1. “Dark energy may be weakening, major astrophysics study finds” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2024-04-04).
2. “How physicists are exploring and rethinking time” by Charle Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2024-04-01).
3. “Holden Thorp: Straight talk from the editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-03-17).
4. “The unpredictable strong force continues to surprise physicists” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2024-??-??).

Society

1. “Alexandra Hudson on why civility matters” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-04-06). 58m audio recording with transcript.
2. “Jonathan Haidt on the anxious generation” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-03-30). 62 m audio recording with transcript.
3. “Why Democrats, Republicans, who appear at war these days, really need each other” by Anna Lamb (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-28).
4. “The fallacious case for abolishing the rich” (The Economist, 2024-03-22).
5. “Why are we so divided? Zero-sum thinking is part of it.” by Christy DeSmith (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-21).
6. “America is concerned about social media. China is, too” (The Economist, 2024-03-21).
7. “The gap in today’s journalism” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-03-21). On the history and goal of the website.
8. “Why young men and women are drifting apart” (The Economist, 2024-03-13).
9. “What would Benjamin Franklin do…about social media?” by Jeff Neal (Harvard Law Today, 2024-03-13).
10. “It would be nice to live in a world where college-educated adults had the ability to think beyond words” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-02-12).
11. “Masculinity, motherhood, and American moxie” by Elizabeth Grace Matthew (Law & Liberty, 2024-02-02).

Technology

1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-04-05). On AI startup Archetype’s prototype connecting AI to real-time sensors in the physical world.
2. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-03-29). On AI.
3. “Lifting a few with my chatbot” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-27). Sociologist Sherry Turkle on AI.
4. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-03-22). On digital images.
5. “Why AI systems still confound researchers” by Ben Brubaker (Quanta Magazine, 2024-03-18).
6. “This agency is tasked with keeping AI safe. Its offices are crumbling.” by Cat Zakrzewski (The Washington Post, 2024-03-06).
7. “The Nvidia chips inside powerful AI supercomputers” by Asa Fitch, Eric Niiler, Peter Champelli (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-06).

Technology : AI : Four-part explainer series by The Economist

1. “How human intelligence inspired AI” (The Economist, 2024-03-06). 43m audio recording. Part 1 of 4.
2. “How machines learn” (The Economist, 2024-03-13). 43m audio recording. Part 2 of 4.

Other

1. “What I’ve learned after two years on Substack (April 2024)” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-04-07).
2. “‘Intellectually, it was sort of whiplash’” by Christine Perkins (Harvard Law Today, 2024-04-04). HLS’s annual “Why I changed my mind” panel. 57 m video recording at end of summary article.
3. “Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions” (The Economist, 2024-04-04).
4. “Against agency” by Marilyn Simon (Quillette, 2024-04-04).
5. “Achieving greatness without falling apart” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-28).
6. “Yes, it’s exciting. Just don’t look at the sun.” by Anne J. Manning (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-04-01). On the upcoming total solar eclipse.
7. “Warning for journalists: You’re more ignorant than you realize” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-25). A summary of a recent talk featuring Marty Baron.
8. “Why do men dominate chess?” by Carole Hooven (Quillette, 2024-03-22).
9. “In defense of craft” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-20).
10. “Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-03-17).
11. “The more you do, the less you accomplish” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-06).
12. “Negotiating the irrational with Daniel Kahneman” by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy (The Harvard Gazette, 2021-12-06).

Read : 2023-10-13

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “Reformation collabed with New York City Ballet—and yes, there are ballet flats” by Kristen Bateman (Vogue, 2023-10-09).

Business

1. “Yes, you can radically change your organization in one week” by Kristen Senz (Harvard Business School : Working Knowledge, 2023-10-06).

Cybersecurity

1. “Critical Atlassian Confluence CVE under exploit by prolific state-linked actor” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-10-13).

Economics

1. “The Fed is putting too much faith in markets” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-13).
2. “This inflation report won’t let the Fed declare victory” by Gabriel T. Rubin, Nick Timiroas (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-12). An analysis of the September 2023 CPI print.
3. “A Nobel for the story of women in the workforce” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-10-12). On economist Claudia Goldin and her work.
4. “Rising rents and stagnant wages: Today’s economic challenges with San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-10-12). 48m video recording with full transcript.
5. “Corporate America faces a trillion-dollar debt reckoning” (The Economist, 2023-10-12).
6. “Consumer Price Index—September 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-10-12).
7. “Producer Price Index—September 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-10-11).
8. “Homeland economics” (The Economist, 2023-10-07). Gateway for several recent articles about industrial policy.
9. “The employment situation—Septemeber 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-10-06).
10. “Strikes, deficits, and the housing crisis” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-10-05).
11. “The Bank of Japan’s seductive widow-maker trade” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2023-10-05).
12. “A surge in global bond yields threatens trouble” (The Economist, 2023-10-04).
13. “Job openings and labor turnover—August 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-10-03).

Education

1. “The Morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-10-10). Subtitled “We’re covering the top-performing public school system in the U.S….”

Gaza, Hamas, Israel

1. “The Morning” by David Leonhardt, Lauren Jackson (The New York Times, 2023-10-13). Subtitled “We’re covering the prospect of a ground invasion of Gaza…”.
2. “Hamas’s atrocities and Israel’s retaliation will change both sides for ever” (The Economist, 2023-10-12).
3. “The Morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-10-09). Subtitled “We’re covering the global context of the Hamas–Israel war…”
4. “The Morning” by Steven Erlanger (The New York Times, 2023-10-08). Subtitled “After a surprise assault, Israel says it is at war with Gaza.”

Health, medicine

1. “On genome editing with Fyodor Urnov, a pioneer” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-10-12). 47m audio podcast with full transcript.
2. “A Nobel Prize and the future of vaccines+” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-10-06).
3. “How to protect your vision while watching a solar eclipse” by Katie McCallum (Houston Methodist, 2023-10-03).

Politics

1. “The Morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-10-12). Subtitled “We’re covering Kamala Harris’s biggest challenge…” In which the author both identifies and solves Vice President Harris’s biggest challenge for her.
2. “Are free markets history?” (The Economist, 2023-10-05).

Science and technology

1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-10-13). In which Levy talks with Taylor Lorenz.
2. “A tech warning: AI is coming fast and it’s going to be a rough ride” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-10-12).
3. “Google challenges AWS, boosts cloud database speed, performance” by Matt Ashare (CIO Dive, 2023-10-12).
4. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-10-06). On a U2 concert in The Sphere.

Society

1. “Harvard student groups face intense backlash for statement calling Israel ‘entirely responsible’ for Hamas attack” by J. Sellers Hill, Nia L. Orakwue (The Harvard Crimson, 2023-10-09). Includes the original statement (signing organizations removed).
2. “Melinda French Gates on how leaders can boost women’s economic power” by Melinda French Gates (The Economist, 2023-10-04).
3. “How social isolation, loneliness can shorten life” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-10-03).

Other

1. “Factors of resilience” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-10-12).
2. “Taylor Swift having fun? I, for one, love to see it” by Emma Specter (Vogue, 2023-10-03).
3. “In favour of simple writing” (The Economist, 2023-09-28).

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 : 2023-01-24

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).