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4 stars Your Book Review: Cities And The Wealth Of Nations / The Question Of Separatism | Astral Codex Ten Starts slow, is a bit wonky…but also…

May 28

4 stars Amor Eterno | Texas Monthly Beautifully written and heartbreaking: One year ago, before the school shooting in Uvalde, Kimberly Mata-Rubio had…

May 14

April 2023

3 stars Berlin in 1945 | Kottke Seven minutes of color film footage of Berlin in 1945, right after the end of World War II. Lots of bombed out…

Apr 30

3 stars The Case of the Fake Sherlock | New York Magazine Richard Walter was hailed as a genius criminal profiler. How did he get away with his fraud…

Apr 16

3 stars Highrises Collection The prosperity of early 20th century America resulted in a boom of skyscrapers that still tower over cities across the…

Apr 2

March 2023

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…

Mar 19

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…

Mar 5

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…

Feb 12

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…

Jan 22

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…

Jan 8

December 2022

Links: Best of 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…

Dec 24, 2022

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…

Dec 18, 2022

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