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Handpicked feature writing and other items of note.
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Today's Selections


The Cobalt Problem (link)

The Extremely Weird Politics of Covid (link)

Searching for Plato with My 7-Year-Old (link)

On the Internet We're Always Famous (link)

FLASHBACK: Trouble in Paradise (link)
STUFF I'VE BEEN WRITING

The Politics of Ressentiment (link)

The Danger of Treating Everything as an Emergency (link)

Noteworthy...

Above are the usual selections, focused on feature stories. This section will feature other noteworthy stuff: undercovered news stories about civil liberties and other subjects dear to my heart; worthwhile video content; and other treats intended to increase your pleasure.
  • A doctor explains why he violated the Texas abortion law (link)
  • Lunch with Orson Welles (link)
  • Confession of an advice column fabulist (link)
  • Thomas Chatterton Williams goes to Switzerland (link)
  • Disinformation versus democracy (link)
  • Ocean photographer of the year (link)
  • Wrapping the Arc de Triumph (link)
  • A math problem solved (link)
  • The five coup schemes of Donald Trump (link)
  • Tyler Cowen interviews Amia Srinivasan (link)
  • So does Paris Review (link)
  • How the Anti-Saloon League harmed innovation (link)
  • Where are the Covid tests? (link)
  • Murder rose by almost 30 percent in 2020 (link)
  • Study on Delta and vaccine effectiveness (link)
  • Conservative skepticism about capitalism (link)
  • The economic mistake the left is finally confronting (link)
  • Understanding why the U.S. is selling Australia nuclear submarines (link)
  • Douglas and King convergence (link)
  • They race lawnmowers in Texas (link)
  • On scurvy (link)
  • The glint on your screen (link)
  • Confessions of a Michelin inspector (link)
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