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 : 2024-05-04

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).

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 : 2024-02-27

Articles for reading

1. “What do we do with our loneliness?” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-14). 27m audio recording with transcript.

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “Hollywood bets on a future of quick clips and tiny screens” by Adam Rogers (WIRED, 2020-01-08).

Athletics

1. “The distance traveled: Swimming trio leads Owl distance squad” by Daniel Hansen (Rice Owls, 2024-02-21).
2. “5 lessons on life from the greatest sporting event” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-02-14).

Books

1. “How the luxury beliefs of an educated elite erode society” by Rob Henderson (The Times, 2024-02-23).
2. “What shocked me about the culture at Yale” by Rob Henderson (Persuasion, 2024-02-21). An excerpt from Rob Henderson’s book “Troubled”.
3. “Is everything you assumed about the Middle Ages wrong?” (The Economist, 2024-02-21). Book review of “Medieval horizons”, by Ian Mortimer.
4. “We’ve come a long way” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-02-18).
5. “2054, part I: Death of a president” by Maria Streshinsky (WIRED, 2024-02-17). On the novel “2054”, by Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis.
6. “Chaos at the end of history” by Matt Johnson (Quillette, 2024-02-12). A review of “The end of history and the last man” (1989) by Francis Fukuyama.

Business and investing

1. “Right or wrong?” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-27). Zweig argues the better question is, “Why were you right or wrong?” That is, were you right or wrong (as measured) for the right or wrong reasons (as empirically or logically argued)?
2. “Generative AI skills bring nearly 50% salary bump: Indeed” by Roberto Torres (CIO Dive, 2024-02-21).
3. “Data show the economy is booming. Wall Street thinks otherwise” by Sam Goldfarb (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-20).
4. “Cisco to lay off more than 4k in restructuring” by Roberto Torres (CIO Dive, 2024-02-15).

Cybersecurity

1. “NIST releases version 2.0 of landmark Cybersecurity Framework” (US National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2024-02-26).
2. “Cloud intrusions spiked 75% in 2023, CrowdStrike says” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-02-23).
3. “Back to the building blocks: A path toward secure and measurable software” (US Office of the National Cyber Director, via US White House, 2024-02).
4. “The Mirai confessions: Three young hackers who built a Web-killing monster finally tell their story” by Andy Greenberg (WIRED, 2023-11-14).

Economics

1. “Do not expect America’s interest rates to fall just yet” (The Economist, 2024-02-22).
2. “Producer price indices—January 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-02-16).

Education

1. “Institutional neutrality in a polarized world: What should Harvard and higher ed do?” (2024-03-05). Registration, in person or online, for a panel on 2024-03-05 featuring Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Tom Ginsburg, Janet Halley, and Robert C. Post.
2. “Why Americans love to hate Harvard” by Derek Bok (Harvard Magazine, 2024-03).
3. “Larry Summers on what went wrong on campus” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-02-24).
4. “AWS expands free AI training course catalog” by Lindsey Wilkinson (CIO Dive, 2024-02-16).

Health, medicine, and wellness

1. “The art and science of happiness” (Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics Forum, 2024-02-26). Featuring Arthur Brooks.
2. “Does drinking water before meals really help you lose weight?” by Robert H. Shmerling (Harvard Health Publishing, 2024-02-20).
3. “What do we do with our loneliness?” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-14). 27m audio recording with transcript.
4. “Confronting the dangers of ultra-processed food” (The Economist, 2023-07-24).
5. “Mortician breaks down dead body scenes from movies & TV” (WIRED, 2021-12-02). 28m video recording.

Law

1. “Four more prestigious colleges to settle price-fixing suit for $166 million” by Melissa Korn (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-24).
2. “Two ideas of free speech duel at America’s Supreme Court” (The Economist, 2024-02-23).
3. “Compelling speech” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2024-02-21). On free speech and social media.

Mathematics

1. “The deep math of tiling” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-02-26).
2. “Never-repeating tiles can safeguard quantum information” by Ben Brubaker (Quanta Magazine, 2024-02-23).
3. “Unfolding the mysteries of polygonal billiards” by David S. Richeson (Quanta Magazine, 2024-02-15).

Navalny, Alexei

1. “Alexei Navalny 1976–2024” by John Lloyd (Quillette, 2024-02-23).
2. “What Navalny’s death means for Russia, Putin and the world” (The Economist, 2024-02-16).

Politics

1. “Mexico’s ‘hugs, not bullets’ crime policy spreads grief, murder and extortion” by Juan Montes (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-25).
2. “Trump tightens hold on GOP, crowding out even popular rivals” by Aaron Zitner, Jack Gillum (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-25).
3. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-02-20). Subtitled, “We’re covering the latest battleground in Gaza…”.
4. “The moral blindness of Putin’s apologists on the right” by Gerard Baker (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-19).
5. “The US–China chip war is escalating” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-02-17).
6. “The growing peril of national conservatism” (The Economist, 2024-02-15).
7. “Pushing back against China—without igniting war” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-14).
8. “The real message of Vladimir Putin’s chat with Tucker Carlson” (The Economist, 2024-02-09).
9. “A self-enforcing protocol to solve gerrymandering” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2024-02-02).

Science

1. “Richard Charles Lewontin, 92” by Andrew Berry, Hopi Hoekstra, John Wakeley, Daniel L. Hartl (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-09).

Society

1. “New technologies, new totalitarians” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-02-27).
2. “Framing is everything” by Daniel Miessler (Unsupervised Learning, 2024-02-24).
3. “We are entering an age of ultra-processed information” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-02-21).
4. “Equality is not immunity” by George Case (Quillette, 2024-02-20).
5. “The morning” by Christine Chung (The New York Times, 2024-02-18). Subtitled, “My colleague Christine Chung…has a new story about a technological shift underway at America’s airports.”

Technology

1. “How to make AI ‘forget’ all the private data it shouldn’t have” by Rachel Layne (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2024-02-22).
2. “Chatbots and human conversation” by Albert Fox Cahn, Bruce Schneier (The Atlantic, via Schneier on Security, 2024-01-26).
3. “Quantum computing’s hard, cold reality check” by Edd Gent (IEEE Spectrum, 2023-12-22).

Other

1. “Nvidia, AI and U.S. innovation” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-22).
2. “Intersectionality’s cosmic inquisitor” by Jonathan Kay (Quillette, 2024-02-15). On Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.

Read : 2024-01-16

Articles for reading

1. “Parentheses, brackets, and braces” (Practical Typography, ????). A clear statement of which is which—and bonus clarification on when (not) to adjust them for italics, etc. (How can you not love an article that ends with the line, “In situations where you have a roman character next to a bold or italic character, the only cure is vigilance.”)
2. “Risk-aversion is killing romance” by Freya India (2024-01-02).

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “The 18 best dressed stars at the 2024 Emmy awards” by Christian Allaire (Vogue, 2024-01-15).
2. “Critics Choice Awards 2024: Fasion—Live from the red carpet” by Hannah Jackson (Vogue, 2024-01-15).

Books

1. “Book review: Chaotic childhoods” by Stephanos Bibas (The University of Chicago Law Review, ????). A review of “Troubled”, by Rob Henderson.

Cybersecurity

1. “Progress Software’s MOVEit meltdown: uncovering the fallout” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-01-16).
2. “Improving Shor’s algorithm” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2024-01-05).
3. “Cryptography after the aliens land” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2018-09).

Economics

1. “America’s new business boom” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-01-14).
2. “Producer price indexes—December 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-01-12).
3. “Consumer price index—December 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-01-11).
4. “Nation’s top economists are short-term happy, long-term glum” by Gabriel T. Rubin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-07).
5. “Is the Chinese miracle over?” by Yao Yang (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-04).
6. “Has China’s economy peaked?” by Zhang Jun (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-03).
7. “The global economy is not out of the woods” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-03).

Education

1. “Alumni committee announces candidates for Harvard board positions” (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-01-12).
2. “Is Harvard Business School too woke?” (The Economist, 2024-01-10).
3. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-01-08). Subtitled, “We’re covering the debate over standardized tests in college admissions…”.
4. “The misguided war on the SAT” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-01-07).
5. “How much of modern academia is waste?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-01-07). Paywalled.

Law

1. “The case for the Supreme Court to overturn Chevron deference” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-15).

Mathematics

1. “The mathematician who finds the poetry in math and the math in poetry” by Leila Sloman (Quanta Magazine, 2024-01-12). On Sarah Hart.
2. “Chapter eleven: If–then arguments” by David Carl Wilson (University of Minnesota, ????).

Medicine

1. “SOTP: State-of-the-pandemic” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-01-05).

Politics

1. “The morning” by Nate Cohn (The New York Times, 2024-01-16). Subtitled, “We’re covering the Republican nomination campaign…”.
2. “The next battle in higher ed may strike at its soul: scholarship” by Anemona Hartocollis (The New York Times, 2024-01-14).
3. “The morning” by David Leonhardt, Ian Prasad Philbrick (The New York Times, 2024-01-12). Subtitled, “We’re covering tomorrow’s election in Taiwan…”.
4. “Why is America’s Congress being briefed on UFOs?” (The Economist, 2024-01-11).
5. “What killed US–China engagement?” by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-04).

Society

1. “What it takes to build democratic institutions” by Daron Acemoglu (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-16).
2. “Rob Henderson on foster care, social class and the new American elite” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-01-13). 1h38m audio recording with full transcript.
3. “Lights out in America” by John Lloyd (Quillette, 2024-01-05). Subtitled, “The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.” Paywalled.
4. “How to win the culture war” (The Economist, 2024-01-04). On Dave Chappelle’s “The dreamer”.
5. “Clarifying America’s great inequality debate” by Daron Acemoglu (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-03).
6. “Thorstein Veblen’s theory of the leisure class—a status update” by Rob Henderson (Quillette, 2019-11-16).

Other

1. “Parentheses, brackets, and braces” (Practical Typography, ????).
2. “Choosing well in a world of ultra-processed everything” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-01-09).
3. “Lessons I learned the hard way” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-01-07).
4. “Western Europe’s forgotten nightmare” by Jonathan Kay (Quillette, 2024-01-06). On Rachel Chrastil’s book “Bismarck’s war: The Franco-Prussian war and the making of modern Europe”. Paywalled.
5. “Elon Musk has used illegal drugs, worrying leaders at Tesla and SpaceX” by Emily Glazer, Kirsten Grind (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-06).
6. “Lessons I learned the hard way” by Rob Henderson (The Free Press, 2023-12-31).
7. “Risk-aversion is killing romance” by Freya India (2024-01-02).

Read : 2023-10-21

Articles for reading

1. “Stop hovering and let kids play—their mental health depends on it” by Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-10-19). An appeal for unstructured play in the spirit of Peter Gray’s 2013 article “The play deficit“.
2. “The quest to quantify quantumness” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2023-10-19). A helpful reminder that “quantum computing” involves algorithms, not just computers.

Articles for reference

Athletics

1. “Funny thing happened on way to med school” by Danny Laughery (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-10-19).

Cybersecurity

1. “Almost 42K Cisco IOS XE devices exploited, no patch available” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-10-19).

Economics

1. “The 1970s economic theory that needs to die” by Rogé Karma (The Atlantic, 2023-10-20). Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee: What needs to die are poorly informed, poorly reasoned, baldly biased articles. (Don’t hold your breath.) Subtitled: Turns out you can talk to Fed presidents without sharing the privilege or deep insight with your readers. Will writers accept the critical news?
2. “Opening remarks” by Jerome Powell (US Federal Reserve, 2023-10-19).
3. “Monetary policy in a surplus economy” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-10-19).
4. “Why America’s banks need more capital” (The Economist, 2023-10-19).
5. “How free-market economics reshaped legal systems the world over” (The Economist, 2023-10-19).
6. “Do Amazon and Google lock out competition?” (The Economist, 2023-10-19).

Health and medicine

1. “Peter Attia: Our conversation about his hit book OUTLIVE, Medicine 3.0, promoting healthspan, GLP-1 drugs and more” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-10-19). 43m audio podcast with transcript.
2. “How to get unlonely” by Maura Kelly (Harvard Public Health Magazine, 2023-10-17).

Politics

1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-10-20). Subtitled, “We’re covering the evidence related to the Gaza hospital explosion…”.
2. “Hamas’s hospital lie and the laws of war” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-18).

Science and technology

1. “Thoughts on techno-optimism” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-10-20). Clarification of thoughts instigated by Marc Andreessen’s “The techno-optimist manifesto”.
2. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-10-20). Criticism instigated by Marc Andreessen’s “The techno-optimist manifesto”.
3. “The techno-optimist manifesto” by Marc Andreessen (a16z, 2023-10-16).
4. “The quest to quantify quantumness” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2023-10-19).

Society

1. “Chetty, Sandel on what’s crushing American Dream” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-10-19).
2. “Stop hovering and let kids play—their mental health depends on it” by Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-10-19).
3. “How to cancel cancel culture” (The Economist, 2023-10-19).
4. “Speak out on Israel–Hamas war or stay quiet? Both are risky, colleges find” by Douglas Belkin, Melissa Korn (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-19).
5. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-10-19). Subtitled “We’re covering the great American investment slump…”. Leonhardt blames insufficient (public) investment for increased travel times. I suspect choices in public investment play a significant role. I hope the article (which Leonhardt wrote) promoted in the final paragraph discusses other potentially relevant changes in society over the fifty-year reference period he proposes, like changes in population (in the US, 208 million in 1971 versus 332 million in 2021), population density, living patterns (e.g., where people live relative to where they work), and how Americans weigh trade-offs between individual and collective benefit.

Other

1. “What it means to explain the economy” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-10-20).