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 : 2024-05-04

Articles for reading

1. “Keeping secrets” by Henry Corrigan-Gibbs (Stanford Magazine, 2014-11/12).
2. “The 214th Columbia University Commencement address” by Richard Hofstadter (Columbia University, 1968-06-04).

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “The paranoid style in Shakespeare denialism” by Oliver Kamm (Quillette, 2024-05-02).
2. “Colleagues, students remember Helen Vendler, a ‘titan’ of poetry criticism” by Eileen O’Grady (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-01).

Athletics

1. “How old is too old to run?” by Anna Lamb (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-04-26).
2. “Longevity and VO2max: Does it actually matter?” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-04-25).

Business and investing

1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-05-03). On Jeff Lawson and “The Onion”.
2. “Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic” (The Economist, 2024-05-02).
3. “Amazon gets more fuel for AI race” by Dan Gallagher (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-01).
4. “Investors are showing AI startups with cash. One problem: They don’t have much of a business” by Berber Jin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-29).
5. “Less is more: The case for ‘slow productivity’ at work” by Rachel Feintzeig (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-28).
6. “Regulators seize troubled Philadelphia bank, Republic First” by Gina Heeb, Lauren Thomas, Justin Baer (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-26).
7. “How far could America’s stockmarket fall?” (The Economist, 2024-04-25).

Cybersecurity

1. “There’s more than one way to encrypt a secret” by Ben Brubaker (Quanta Magazine, 2024-04-29).
2. “Keeping secrets” by Henry Corrigan-Gibbs (Stanford Magazine, 2014-11/12).

Economics

1. “The employment situtation—April 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-05-03).
2. “America’s reckless borrowing is a danger to its economy—and the world’s” (The Economist, 2024-05-02).
3. “Jerome Powell isn’t too worried about inflation” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-01).
4. “Transcript of Chair Powell’s press conference—May 1, 2024” (US Federal Reserve, 2024-05-01).
5. “ADP National Employment Report” (ADP Research Institute, 2024-05-01).
6. “Japan is wrong to try to prop up the yen” (The Economist, 2024-04-30).
7. “Immigration is surging, with big economic consequences” (The Economist, 2024-04-30).
8. “The end of magical debt thinking” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2024-04-29).
9. “Personal income and outlays, March 2024” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2024-04-26).
10. “Is inflation morally wrong?” (The Economist, 2024-04-25).
11. “JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon gives a soft landing long odds” (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-25). 13m video recording (no transcript).
12. “America’s economy is No. 1. That means trouble.” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-25).

Education

1. “Defending academic freedom in higher education and medicine” by Jeffrey S. Flier (Quillette, 2024-04-25).
2. “The threat to academic freedom: from anecdotes to data” by Eric Kaufmann (Quillette, 2021-03-12).

Health, medicine, and wellness

1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-05-03). Subtitled, “We’re covering Covid vaccine side effects…”.
2. “The morning” by Melissa Kirsch (The New York Times, 2024-04-27). Subtitled, “The advice to live each day to its fullest can seem like a cliché, but figuring out how to actually do that can be pretty challenging.”
3. “Episode 208: Kindness—It’s good for you!” by Born Curious podcast (Harvard Radcliffe Institute, 2024-04-18). 41m audio recording with transcript.

Law

1. “Resolving conflict outside the courtroom” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2024-04-29).

Politics

1. “The positive case for Joe Biden” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-03).
2. “Cease-fire will fail as long as Hamas exists, journalist says” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-01).
3. “Why are politicians so negative? (Hint: It’s a media problem)” by Mark Coddington, Seth Lewis (Nieman Lab, 2024-04-30).
4. “The age of cloud capital” by Yanis Varoufakis (Persuasion, 2024-04-29).
5. “Plaintext” by Makena Kelly (WIRED, 2024-04-26). On TikTok.
6. “Trump allies draw up plans to blunt Fed’s independence” by Andrew Restuccia, Nick Timiraos, Alex Leary (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-25).
7. “What are the obligations of Israel and Hamas to protect civilians?” (The Economist, 2024-04-24).
8. “The representation gap” by Sheri Berman (Persuasion, 2024-04-24).

Science

1. “Aviv Regev: The revolution in digital biology” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-04-28).

Society

1. “When free speech turns into harassment” by Cathy Young (Persuasion, 2024-05-03).
2. “How disinformation works—and how to counter it” (The Economist, 2024-05-02).
3. “The homelessness public health crisis” by Lydialyle Gibson (Harvard Magazine, 2024-05/06). 32m audio recording with article.
4. “Mike Pesca on how the media got polarized” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-04-27). 68m audio recording with transcript.
5. “We keep failing the blasphemy test” by Matt Johnson (Persuasion, 2024-04-26).
6. “Why are women becoming so much more liberal than men?” by Rob Henderson (The Boston Globe, 2024-04-25).
7. “Summer unplugged” by Jill Anderson (Harvard EdCast, 2024-04-17). 31m audio recording with transcript.
8. “How do we disagree in the public square?” (Zócalo, 2024-04). A collection of essays on disagreement in public discourse.
9. “Looking back on a decade of cancel culture” by Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott (Quillette, 2024-01-23).
10. “The paranoid style in American politics” by Richard Hofstader (Harper’s Magazine, 1964-11).

Society : Student protests

1. “Rules for campus radicals, 2024” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-02).
2. “Dear media, stop taking students too seriously” by Shalom Auslander (Persuasion, 2024-05-01).
3. “Escalating protests expose three fault lines on American campuses” (The Economist, 2024-04-30).
4. “America’s new mob rule” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-30).
5. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-04-25). Subtitled, “We’re covering the protests roiling college campuses…”.
6. “The campus is coming for Joe Biden” (The Economist, 2024-04-24).
7. “Efforts to tackle student protests in America have backfired badly” (The Economist, 2024-04-23).
8. “I’m a Columbia professor. The protests on my campus are not justice.” by John McWhorter (The New York Times, 2024-04-23).
9. “The 214th Columbia University Commencement address” by Richard Hofstadter (Columbia University, 1968-06-04).

Technology

1. “VMware users warned to brace for next big upheaval as latest Broadcom changes rumble on” by Craig Hale (Tech Radar, 2024-04-26).
2. “At Moderna, OpenAI’s GPTs are changing almost everything” by Isabelle Bousquette (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-24).
3. “Large language models are getting bigger and better” (The Economist, 2024-04-17).

Other

1. “How an allostatic approach can help you find stability in a crazy world” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-04-30).
2. “What was the American Jew?” by Sam Kahn (Persuasion, 2024-04-23).
3. “‘You must believe you can repair it’” by Scott Gilbertson (WIRED, 2023-05-28).