Must Read
- Shadi Hamid, Donald Trump and the Authoritarian Temptation [See Note #1 below]
Should Read
- Mike the Mad Biologist, The Identity That Shall Not Be Named
- The complete transcript of Larry Wilmore’s 2016 White House correspondents’ dinner speech
- Greenpeace, TTIP Leaks
- David Cay Johnston, How the Kleptocrats’ $12 Trillion Heist Helps Keep Most of the World Impoverished
- Alysia Garrison, What ‘Frankenstein’ Can Tell Us About Climate Change
- Andrew Gelman and Adam Zelizer, Evidence on the deliterious impact of sustained use of polynomial regression on causal inference [See Note #2 below]
Politics
- Mike the Mad Biologist, (Democratic) Partying Like It’s 1999
- Cathy O’Neil, Globalization for the 99%
- Nicole M. Aschoff, Why Elites Hate Trump
- John Quiggin, Rubin gets it right
- Janna Malamud Smith, If You Can’t Vote, Are You Truly Free?
Better Seven Years Too Late Than Never?
Economics and Work
- Dean Baker, Interest on the Debt Is Near a Post-War Low
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Federal Outlays: Interest as Percent of Gross Domestic Product
- U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Long Term Rate Data
- Heather Boushey and Kavya Vaghul, Garnering economic security is complicated for young families
- Tim Taylor, Falling Job Tenure
- Ross Eisenbrey, The White House attacks the spread of abusive non-compete agreements
- Nico Block, How to Tax Capitalists
Culture
- Anne Trubek, Opting Out of Coastal Madness to Live a Low-Overhead Life
- Nolan Gray, Who Plans?: Jane Jacobs’ Hayekian critique of urban planning
- Suzanne DeWitt Hall, Moving Out, Moving On: Recalling The Bittersweet History Of A Beloved Home
Environment
- Ian Welsh, Why the Climate Change Numbers Say “Nuclear”
- Eli Rabett, Looking Down – 16 Months of OCO-2
Math and Science
- Andrew Gelman, “Null hypothesis” = “A specific random number generator”
- Draper Laboratory, Cracking the Code in Satellite Data
- Chad Orzel, The Real Reasons Quantum Entanglement Doesn’t Allow Faster-Than-Light Communication
- Teledyne Dalsa, CCD vs. CMOS
- Chad Orzel, Why Does The Rising Sun Change Color?
Ending on a Positive Note
- Nina Burleigh (NYT), Starry Nights in the Canary Islands
- Andrea Shea, MFA Conservators Lift Veils Of Varnish From 2 van Gogh Masterpieces
- Jeff Slate, Under the Big Black Sun Chronicles the Often Forgotten Story of L.A. Punk
- William Rhoden (NYT), Lifted Up by Love, Not Just Basketball
- Jack Holmes, Here’s the Fastest Outfield Throw Ever Recorded. It Nailed the Runner at Home Plate.
I did not know that about hoverfly larvae. (Johnny’s Selected Seeds)
Notes:
- Hamid was on On Point last month presenting a counterargument to Andrew Bacevich on U.S. interventionism in the Middle East. I’m with Bacevich not Hamid when it comes to foreign policy but Hamid’s essay here maybe gives me a better sense of where he’s coming from.
- Damn, I wish I had written this.