4 stars Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest | After Babel I keep on linking Haidt’s new Substack because I keep on being…
3 stars How the Biggest Fraud in German History Unravelled | New Yorker Late in the spring of 2020, Jan Marsalek, an Austrian bank executive, was…

February 2023

3 stars The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012 | After Babel Jonathan Haidt now has a Substack, and it promises to be excellent: I began…

January 2023

3 stars A 4-Year-Old Trapped in a Teenager’s Body | The Cut “I was all of the things people are when they’re 14 or 15” — except a decade younger. Link…
4 stars The third magic | Noahpinion I thought this was brilliantly argued — a must-read: A meditation on history, science, and AI […] Humanity’s living…

December 2022

Happy holidays! Here’s this year’s set of 4-star links. Previous years: [2021] [2020] [2019] [2018] [2017] Why the Past Ten Years of American Life Have…
Maybe every issue will be an AI issue from now on… 3 stars How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle | New Yorker Over the years, Marsha Farmer had learned…
I guess this is the AI Edition… though it’s likely these stories are only going to become more common. 3 stars The Curse of Kentwood | Vulture One year…

November 2022

3 stars The Demon River | Hakai On the night of November 15, 2021, British Columbia’s Nicola River sounded like thunder. Boulders boomed beneath a…
3 stars COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab | ProPublica Of course, since this piece was published…

October 2022

3 stars The Rise of Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Authoritarian President | New Yorker Toward the back of the line, wearing a long denim skirt and a red…
4 stars Johnson & Johnson and a New War on Consumer Protection | New Yorker Almost every American, from nursery to deathbed, uses Johnson & Johnson…