This Week’s Selections
A Usable Past for a Post-American Nation (link)
The Medium Is the Menace (link)
What Happened to Michael Flynn? (link)
Spiegel Interviews the Head of the Taliban (link)
Flashback:
Homemaking (link)
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (link)
Other Items of Note…
The BA.5 story (link)
Abe Shinzo: a retrospective (link)
An inmate’s exploration of mental health in prison (link)
Loving and hating Lyndon Johnson (link)
How LBJ brought electricity to Hill Country (link)
Allen Iverson tells his stories (link)
Operation Warp Speed should not have been disbanded (link)
Kikagaku Moyo’s homecoming (link)
New Orleans grapples with mass incarceration and violent crime (link)
Progress on a pan coronavirus vaccine (link)
UFO news (link)
An instructive debate on housing policy in The Nation (link)
On air pollution (link)
David Brooks on humility (link)
The magic of a little danger (link)
A looming hunger catastrophe (link)
University administrators and the most sensitive students (link)
Caitlin Flanagan reviews Top Gun: Maverick (link)
Kat Rosenfield grapples with a book on strippers (link)
Dreading the city of the future (link)
Weird essay on plant consciousness (link)
Megan McArdle on being trolled online (link)
Interesting NYT essay on abortion and ectopic pregnancy (link)
An anthropologist’s resignation from UCLA (link)
Review of Talent (link)
Why mass shooters do the evil they do (link)
The one kind of homework that we know works (link)
Inside the Ukrainian resistance (link)
The dangerous lesson of book bans in public libraries (link)
Getting a hair transplant in Turkey (link)
Proposal for a compromise on abortion (link)
Thoughts about free speech and plain language from 1936 (link)
Best bird photos of the year (link)
Nick Kyrgios highlights (link)
Memorable high school sports highlights (link)
Stuff I’ve Been Writing
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