Today's Selections

The Remarkable Brain of a Carpet Cleaner Who Speaks 24 Languages (link)

“What I wish I’d known when I was 19 and had sex reassignment surgery” (link)

Rick Bragg’s Life in Trucks (link)

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Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid (link)

Or Maybe It’s Demons (link)

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Among the Americans Fighting in Ukraine (link)

The Global Food Shortages Caused by Putin’s War (link)

Letter from a Russophile in Exile (link)

STUFF I'VE BEEN WRITING

My most recent articles… (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 cosmonaut’s tragedy (link)
“Poland against the progressives” (link)
“There is an emerging cultural disconnect between the people who most need unions and the people who sometimes run them.” (link)
“How to make sense of the new LGBTQ culture war” (link)
The price of Arizona iced tea (link)
Barnes and Noble vilified no more (link)
MacKenzie Scott is giving it away (link)
The siege of Chernihiv (link)
“I find that a 4 month acceleration to a vaccine rollout in August of 2020 was achievable and would have saved between 130 and 350 thousand lives over the next two years of the pandemic.” (link)
A model vaccine strategy (link)
Covid nasal spray may be the future (link)
A shockwave visualized (link)
Why Rome triumphed (link)
The campaign for a sex-free Internet (link)
Tales of filmmaking, via Jason Kottke (link)
The costs of occupational licensing in Tennessee (link)
Did the John Birch Society win in the end? (link)
Revisiting the Roland Fryer case (link)