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 : 2023-05-13

Articles for reading

1. “Martin Luther King, Christian radical” by Jonathan Eig (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-05-12).
2. “Core inflation is (finally) cooling” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-05-13).

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “In honor of Audrey Hepburn’s birthday, see 23 rare photographs from the Condé Nast archives” by Lilah Ramzi (Vogue, 2023-05-04).
2. “A $55,000 fashion education now means learning to make chic outfits for Roblox avatars” by Sarah E. Needleman (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-05-09).

Books

1. “Martin Luther King was among the greatest Americans—and the most misunderstood” (The Economist, 2023-05-11).
2. “Martin Luther King, Christian radical” by Jonathan Eig (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-05-12).

Cybersecurity

1. “A gift of 124 hours” LinkedIn post by Jamil Farshchi (LinkedIn, 2023-05-08). On CISA and the FBI warning Equifax in advance of a cyberattack.
2. “Young cyber companies face uncertain economy” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-05-10).

Economics

1. “Job openings reach record highs in 2022 as the labor market recovery continues” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-05).
2. “The risks still lurking in the banking system” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Ecoomics, 2023-05-08).
3. “How Japanese policymakers ended up in a very deep hole” (The Economist, 2023-05-04).
4. “Consumer Price Index—April 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-05-10).
5. “Producer price indexes—April 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-05-11).
6. “Joe Biden is more responsible for high inflation than for abundant jobs” (The Economist, 2023-05-11).
7. “Stop equating the latest bank failures to the 2008 crisis” by Josh Zumbrun (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-05-12).
8. “What is quantitative tightening?” (The Economist, 2023-05-04).
9. “Core inflation is (finally) cooling” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-05-13).

Science and technology

1. “Your job is (probably) safe from artificial intelligence” (The Economist, 2023-05-07).
2. “What is ChatGPT? What to know about the AI chatbot” by Karen Hao (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-04-11).
3. “Opportunity and risk in the new era of AI” (The Economist, 2023-05-12).
4. “Physicists create elusive particles that remember their pasts” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2023-05-09).
5. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-05-12). On AI.

Society

1. “The art of the doomer” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-05-11).

Other

1. “Infinite games vs. finite games and Giannis’s failure” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-05-11).
2. “‘Compost happens’ and other common-sense advice from experts” by Margaret Roach (The New York Times, 2023-05-10).

Read : 2023-04-23

Articles for reading (and podcasts for listening)

1. “How can some infinities be bigger than others?” by Steven Strogatz (Quanta Magazine : The Joy of Why, 2023-04-19). Forty-six-minute audio podcast with Justin Moore. (Audio transcript included.)

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

1. “Kaja Kallas says Ukraine is giving the free world a masterclass on cyber-defence” by Kaja Kallas (The Economist, 2023-04-17).
2. “CFPB says staffer sent 250,000 consumers’ data to personal account” by Andrew Ackerman (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-04-19).

Economics

1. “Few banks are hedging interest-rate risk” by Matt Grossman (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-04-18).
2. “How to explain the puzzle of the world ecoconomy” (The Economist, 2023-04-17).
3. “The overwhelming case for CBDCs” by Willem H. Buiter (Project Syndicate, 2023-04-18).
4. “The Bank of Japan’s remarkable decade” by Takatoshi Ito (Project Syndicate, 2023-04-21).

Science and technology : Artificial intelligence (AI)

1. “Large language models’ ability to generate text also lets them plan and reason” (The Economist, 2023-04-19).
2. “Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets” (The Economist, 2023-04-22).
3. “How to worry wisely about artificial intelligence” (The Economist, 2023-04-20).
4. “How generative models could go wrong” (The Economist, 2023-04-19).
5. “How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history” (The Economist, 2023-04-20).

Science and technology : Other

1. “How can some infinities be bigger than others?” by Steven Strogatz (Quanta Magazine : The Joy of Why, 2023-04-19). Forty-six-minute audio podcast with Justin Moore. (Audio transcript included.)
2. “A new kind of symmetry shakes up physics” by Kevin Hartnett (Quanta Magazine, 2023-04-18).
3. “Plaintext” by Morgan Meaker (WIRED, 2023-04-21). On what file sharing, iTunes, and streaming did to music.
4. “Did the energy crisis accelerate the energy transition?” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-04-22).

Society

1. “What does Gen Z really think about work?” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-04-20).
2. “Picasso was a genius—and a beast. Can the two be separated?” (The Economist, 2023-04-05).

Other

1. “The hard truth about G2A, Kinguin, and grey market keys” by Locke Kosta (Locke’s Journey, 2016-03-17).
2. “How to regulate your nervous system” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-04-20).

Read : 2023-04-02

Articles for reading

1. “How deep is the rot in America’s banking industry?” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
2. “What’s wrong with the banks” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
3. “The Fed smothers capitalism in an attempt to save it” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
4. “The death of Credit Suisse” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-25).
5. “The Fed’s role in the bank failures” by Raghuram G. Rajan, Viral V. Acharya (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-28).
6. “In era of bitter division, what would Socrates do?” by Clea Simon (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-27).

Articles for reference

Economics

1. “The takeconomy” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-03-16).
2. “What’s wrong with the banks” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
3. “The Fed smothers capitalism in an attempt to save it” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
4. “How deep is the rot in America’s banking industry?” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
5. “The Federal Reserve must choose between inflation and market chaos” (The Economist, 2023-03-19).
6. “Bailouts for everyone?” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-14). An interview with former Fed governor Daniel Tarullo.
7. “More turbulence likely ahead after bank collapses” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-15). An interview with Lawrence H. Summers, former US Treasury Secretary.
8. “SVB and the Fed” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-15).
9. “The Fed’s $300B emergency response” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-18).
10. “Fifty years of floating currencies” by Jeffrey Frankel (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-20).
11. “How bad was the Silicon Valley Bank bailout?” by Paul Krugman (The New York Times, 2023-03-14).
12. “What gets lost when you rescue markets” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-17).
13. “Prospects of avoiding recessing fading” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-23).
14. “When a bank fails, there’s always a villain” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-24).
15. “Let the banks burn” by Yanis Varoufakis (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-24).
16. “Price stability vs. financial stability?” by Willem H. Buiter (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-20).
17. “The Fed must not flinch” by Michael R. Strain (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-21).
18. “The death of Credit Suisse” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-25).
19. “After Credit Suisse’s demise, attention turns to Deutsche Bank” (The Economist, 2023-03-24).
20. “The Fed’s role in the bank failures” by Raghuram G. Rajan, Viral V. Acharya (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-28).
21. “How bank oversight failed: The economy changed, regulators didn’t” by Andrew Ackerman, Angel Au-Yeung, Hannah Miao (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-24).
22. “Policymakers face two nightmares: stubborn inflation and market chaos” (The Economist, 2023-03-23).
23. “Will the recent banking chaos lead to an economic crash?” (The Economist, 2023-03-28).
24. “As interest rates rose, banks did a balance-sheet switcheroo” by Jonathan Weil (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-29).
25. “Why inflation persists” by Lars P. Feld (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-31).
26. “What killed Signature Bank?” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-04-01).

Education

1. “Why did America’s leaders stop caring about schools?” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
2. “What we talk about when we talk about Math 55” by Sage S. Lattman (The Harvard Crimson, 2023-03-25).
3. “The ascent of Chinese education” by Paul Massari (Harvard University GSAS, 2023-03-16).

Mathematics

1. “Surprise computer science proof stuns mathematicians” by Leila Sloman (Quanta Magazine, 2023-03-21).
2. “Is there math beyond the equal sign?” by Steven Strogatz (Quanta Magazine, 2023-03-22). 50m podcast interview with Eugenia Cheng.

Politics

1. “Unions’ extension into politics was necessar—and contributed to their decline, says Harvard Law expert” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-16).
2. “Emmanuel Macron’s government survives, but there is more trouble ahead” (The Economist, 2023-03-20).
3. “Will Bibi break Israel?” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
4. “How China benefits from another US banking crisis” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-24).
5. “America’s industrial policy is counterproductive” by Anne O. Krueger (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-22).
6. “A TikTok ban may be just the beginning” by Christopher Mims (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-25).
7. “Japan and Germany are again preparing for war” by Ian Baruma (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-24).
8. “Lawmakers scold Fed over Silicon Valley Bank collapse” by Andrew Ackerman, David Harrison, Andrew Duehren (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-28).
9. “Tick TikTok goes globalization” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-29).

Science and technology

1. “Why China has edge on AI, what ancient emperors tell us about Xi Jinping” by Christy DeSmith (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-16).
2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-03-24). Subtitled, “A federal judge spoke at Stanford Law School. Chaos ensued.”
3. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-03-24).
4. “Wormhole experiment called into question” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2023-03-23).
5. “Artificial idiocy” by Slavoj Žižek (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-23).

Society

1. “Why America is going to look more like Texas” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
2. “Progressives need to embrace progress” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-22).
3. “In era of bitter division, what would Socrates do?” by Clea Simon (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-27).
4. “Culture belongs to everyone (and no one)” by Anna Lamb (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-23).

Other

1. “Naughty nuns, flatulent monks, and other surprises of sacred medieval manuscripts” by Hunter Oatman-Stanford (Collectors Weekly, 2014-07-24). An interview with Kaitlin Manning.

Read : 2023-03-14

Articles for reading

1. “The Fed’s plan to rescue the banking system” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-13).

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “See every look from the 2023 Oscars red carpet last night” (Vogue, 2023-03-13). 189 photos.
2. “The legacy of Oe Kenzaburo, novelist, Nobelist, pacifist” (The Economist, 2023-03-13).

Economics : Banking

1. “Fed battle plan for inflation shredded by financial turmoil” by Catarina Saraiva, Craig Torres (Bloomberg, 2023-03-13).
2. “Another predictable bank failure” by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-13).
3. “What really went wrong at Silicon Valley Bank” (The Economist, 2023-03-13).
4. “The Fed’s plan to rescue the banking system” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-13).
5. “Silicon Valley is gone. We know who is responsible.” by Elizabeth Warren (The New York Times, 2023-03-13).
6. “SVB collapse: Progressives blame 2018 rollback of Dodd–Frank for bank failures” by Emily Jacobs (The Washington Examiner, 2023-03-13).
7. “Bank-rule pendulum swings back to ‘safety first’” by John Foley (Reuters, 2023-03-13).

Economics : Other

1. “How to fix the platform economy” by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-13).
2. “Consumer price index—February 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-03-14).

Society

1. “What the world can learn from Trieste’s mental health model” by Kerry Morrison (Zócalo, 2023-03-13).

Read : 2023-03-12

Articles for reading

1. “The death of Silicon Valley Bank” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-11).

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “The 55 best Oscars red carpet dresses of all time” by Christian Allaire (Vogue, 2023-03-06).

Cybersecurity

1. “After the LastPass hack, can you trust password managers?” by Nicole Nguyen (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-12).

Economics

1. “ChatGPT, please take my job!” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-04).
2. “How America soaks the affluent” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-03).
3. “Can the Phillips curve explain recent wage growth?” by Alex Domash, Lawrence H. Summers (CEPR, 2023-02-27).
4. “Hot dogs can explain our view of inflation and employment changes with the seasons” by Kara Dapena, Austen Hufford (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-07).
5. “Junk-rated companies are borrowing again” by Sam Goldfarb, Alana Pipe (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-06).
6. “Fragmented globalism” by Mohamed A. El-Erian (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-08).
7. “Labor market vs inflation” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-03-09).
8. “The employment situation—February 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-03-10).
9. “What does Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse mean for the financial system?” (The Economist, 2023-03-10).
10. “Why was there a run on Silicon Valley Bank?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-10).
11. “The death of Silicon Valley Bank” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-11).
12. “Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC” (US Department of the Treasury, 2023-03-12).
13. “Preventing panic in the banking sector” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-12).

Health and medicine

1. “Young people are hurting, and their parents are feeling it” by Samatha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-06).
2. “The morning” by Emily Bazelon (The New York Times, 2023-03-08). Subtitled, “Since Roe v. Wade ended, the battle over legal abortion has largely shifted to access to pills.”

Investing

1. “Crypto companies behind Tether used falsified documents and shell companies to get bank accounts” by Ben Foldy, Ada Hui (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-03).

Law

1. “Is a distrusted judiciary ‘truly the beginning of the end’?” by Brett Milano (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-07).
2. “The U.S. is in the ‘midst of an identity crisis’” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-08).

Politics

1. “How did Americans come to trust markets more than government?” by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-03).
2. “Democrats and Republicans grill Fed Chair Jerome Powell in Senate Banking Comittee” by Forbes Breaking News (YouTube, 2023-03-07). “The semiannual monetary policy report to the Congress”.
3. “The morning” by German Lopez (The New York Times, 2023-03-09). Subtitled, “Both U.S. political parties are now open to the idea that covid may have come from a lab in China.”
4. “China’s new way to control its biggest companies: golden shares” by Lingling Wei (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-08).
5. “Biden’s budget proposal for 2024: What to know” by Andrew Restuccia, Andrew Duehren (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-08).
6. “U.K. privacy bill aims to reduce the burden on business” by Catherine Stupp (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-08).
7. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-03-10). Subtitled, “Is the Democratic party again starting to pay more attention to labor unions?”
8. “America and China are preparing for a war over Taiwan” (The Economist, 2023-03-09).
9. “China’s new head of government, Li Qiang, has Xi Jinping’s ear” (The Economist, 2023-03-12).

Science and technology

1. “Electric vehicles are shattering the barrier to adoption that could matter most” by Christopher Mims (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-04).
2. “The algorithm society and its discontents” by J. Bradford DeLong (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-06).
3. “How Google became cautious of AI and gave Microsoft an opening” by Miles Kruppa, Sam Schechner (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-07).

Society

1. “In aging Japan, one town holds the secret to making more babies” by Miho Inada (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-03).
2. “Can apprenticeships work in the US? Employers seeking new talent pipelines take note” by Michael Blanding (Harvard Business School : Working Knowledge, 2023-02-28).
3. “An evening without Gary Lineker” (The Economist, 2023-03-12).

Other

1. “Interview: Kevin Kelly, editor, author, and futurist” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-07).
2. “A weight gain theory of everything” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-03-09).

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 : 2023-01-24

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 : 2022-07-09

Articles for reading:

1. “Watching for a recession” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-07-09).

Articles for reference:

Economics

1. “As interest rates climb and the economy cools, can companies pay their debts?” (The Economist, 2022-07-03).
2. “Why consumers’ inflation psychology is stoking anxiety at the Fed” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-05).
3. “China’s slowdown could tamp down on global inflation” by Jason Douglas (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-03).
4. “Brad DeLong asks what America can learn from its past bouts of inflation” by Brad DeLong (The Economist, 2022-07-05).
5. “Financial conditions are worsening” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-07-06).
6. “Three mechanisms for crypto contagion” (The Economist, 2022-06-23).
7. “Inflation fears drove larger Fed rate increase in June” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-06). Reading the minutes from the Fed’s 14–15 June 2022 meeting.
8. “Watching for a recession” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-07-09).

Health and wellness

1. “My O.C.D. diagnosis was a blessing, until it became too central to my identity” by Brad Stulberg (The New York Times, 2022-07-03).

   Do I contradict myself?
   Very well then, I contradict myself.
   (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
   —Walt Whitman

Law

1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2022-07-03). Subtitled, “An unhappy place”. A Q&A with the NY Times’s Supreme Court correspondent Adam Liptak.

Politics and society

1. “A time of troubles” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-07-03).
2. “EU lawmakers pass landmark tech rules” by Julie Chang, Sam Schechner (The Wall Street Journal : Tech News Briefing, 2022-07-06). 12m podcast with transcript. Second half of the podcast focuses on the EU’s Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act.
3. “EU lawmakers approve sweeping digital regulations” by Sam Schechner, Kim Mackreal (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-05).
4. “Japan’s Shinzo Abe, former prime minister, is assassinated” by Alastair Gale, Miho Inada (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-08).
5. “Japan’s Shinzo Abe championed economy’s revival, bolstered national defense” by Peter Landers (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-08).
6. “Abe Shinzo: A retrospective” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-07-08).
7. “The employment situation—June 2022” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022-07-08).

Science

1. “CERN’s Large Hadron Collider scientists reveal new particle discovery as accelerator research resumes” by Aylin Woodward (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-05).

Other

1. “Inside China’s vast new experiment in social ranking” by Mara Hvistendahl (WIRED, 2017-12-14).
2. “Drivers who are frustrated, distracted, mad—and somewhat rusty” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-07-06). Whenever you’re driving, focus, and act like you’re in charge of a lethal object. Because you are.

Read : 2022-06-06

Articles for reading:

1. “The inner Jeff Bezos” by Chip Bayers (WIRED, 1999-03-01).

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Economics

1. “Jerome Powell’s Volcker deficit” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2022-05-25).
2. “Don’t bet on a soft landing” by Nouriel Roubini (Project Syndicate, 2022-05-26).
3. “My plan for fighting inflation” by Joe Biden (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-05-30).
4. “U.S. policymakers misjudged inflation threat until it was too late” by Mike Madden, Rachel Siegel (The Washington Post, 2022-05-30).
5. “The path forward: The U.S. economy with Lawrence H. Summers” by David Ignatius (The Washington Post : Washington Post Live, 2022-05-31).
6. “Will US consumers keep spending?” by Jason Furman (Project Syndicate, 2022-05-31).
7. “What America’s next recession will look like” (The Economist, 2022-06-01).
8. “Social Security reserves expected to be depleted in 2035, year later than prior projection” by Andrew Duehren (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-06-02).

   Once Social Security’s reserves run out, revenue will pay for roughly 80% of scheduled benefits, according to the report [by the trustees for the Social Security Trust Funds], unless Congress steps in. Social Security’s cost exceeded its income in 2021, a pattern that the trustees expect in all future years.

9. “An old way to fight inflation gets new fans” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-06-03). On government-imposed price controls.
10. “Just say no to ‘friend-shoring’” by Raghuram G. Rajan (Project Syndicate, 2022-06-03).

    Economic entanglements may be messy, but they help keep the peace.

11. “Do we need a recession?” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2022-06-04).
12. “Americans are spending their excess savings” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-06-04).
13. “Was the American Rescue Plan a mistake?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-06-06).

Gun violence

1. “Gun groups have their own ideas for preventing mass shootings” (The Economist, 2022-06-02).

Maths & science

1. “What is the Langlands program?” by Alex Kontorovich (Quanta Magazine, 2022-06-01).
2. “Longevity starts when we’re young” by Claire McCarthy (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-06-02).
3. “Graduate student’s side project proves prime number conjecture” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2022-06-06).

Politics

1. “Chile’s proposed constitution could upend its free-market model” by Ryan Dube (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-05-30).
2. “The Japan that Abe Shinzo made” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-06-04).

Price indexes

1. “Differences between the consumer price index and the personal consumption expenditures index” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2011, Volume 2, Number 3). An exposition of key concepts in this more-technical paper.

Society

1. “Book reviews: ‘Ametora’ and ‘Pure invention’” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-05-31).
2. “Interview: Katherine Boyle, venture capitalist” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-06-02). In particular, see Boyle’s comments on “ironic culture” and individualism versus community.
3. “The case for American seriousness” by Katherine Boyle (Common Sense, 2022-04-18).

Other

1. “How to use Google Sheets as a database and its various use cases” by Syeda Khadeer Sultana (SmatBot, 2021-06-03).
2. “I rented an electric car for a four-day road trip. I spent more time charging it than I did sleeping.” by Rachel Wolfe (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-06-03).
3. “A rise in suicides by young children leaves families searching for answers” by Andrea Petersen (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-06-05).
4. “This startup wants to pack more energy into electric vehicle batteries” by Casey Crownhart (MIT Technology Review, 2022-06-06).