The Atlantic
The Last Best Hope for America
20+ min read · · The country is at a low point. But we may be on the cusp of an era of radical reform that repairs our broken democracy. · Shared by 58, including dewang mishra, Antonio Vieira Santos - #SPS_Live, Liv 😷
The Paris Review
Periwinkle, the Color of Poison, Modernism, and Dusk
9 min read · · A dreamy word for a color that exists at the edges of the night. · Shared by 19, including dewang mishra, Jennifer Ouellette
VICE
COVID-19 Broke the Economy. What If We Don’t Fix It?
10 min read · · Instead of reopening society for the sake of the economy, what if we continued to work less, buy less, make less—for the sake of the planet? · Shared by 117, including dewang mishra, Buble, Gui Schmitt
BBC News (World)
The black British history you may not know about
7 min read · · From the black Britons in Roman times, to Henry VIII's trumpeter and our very own bus boycott. · Shared by 55, including Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Next up: #AI #Healthcare, Christian Surchi, dewang mishra
The Atlantic
The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You This
Summary · 9 min read · · Peddle misinformation. Cry “conspiracy” when no one else reports it. Repeat. · Shared by 159, including Mark Little, Matthias Lampe, dewang mishra, getAbstract, BenYT, hakan, Helen Lewis, Mathew Ingram
The New York Times
Don’t Lose the Thread. The Economy Is Experiencing an Epic Collapse of Demand.
~11 min read · · A rip in the fabric of the economy won’t be healed easily, and denial of the severity of the crisis won’t solve it. · Shared by 153, including Katja Evertz, Scott Santens, dewang mishra, Gideonro, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Scott Galloway, Dom Zuend, Danielle Fong 💁🏻♀️, Howard Getson, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷
The Atlantic
History Will Judge the Complicit
20+ min read · · Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president? · Shared by 459, including Andy Budd, Matt Zoller Seitz, Paul Graham, Anne Applebaum, Jeff Atwood, Benedict Evans, Bill Hanage, Anne Thompson, Richard Dawkins, Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Sam Harris, Brian Stelter, Brent Toderian, Jay Rosen, Kai Kupferschmidt, Alfie Kohn, Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈, Simon Kuper, Klaus Eck, Craig Spencer MD MPH
medium.com
Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance
20+ min read · · What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time · Shared by 836, including Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, felix salmon, BrendanEich, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Mathew Ingram, Chris Kresser, Semil, Naval, Bob Wachter, John Cutler, Chris Messina, Matt Goodwin, Klaus Eck, Niall Ferguson, Tomas Pueyo, Mathieu von Rohr, Matt Cutts, M.G. Siegler, Gary Marcus, Dr. Alec Couros
mkorostoff.github.io
Wealth, shown to scale
· Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way. · Shared by 600, including Eli Pariser | @elipariser@mastodon.social, Audrey Watters, Julie Zhuo, Tommy Walker, Avinash Kaushik, Guy Longworth, Jill-I didn't pay for the checkmark-Duffy, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, ✕✕✕✕✕, Lynne Murphy, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Next up: #AI #Healthcare, Peter Steinberger, Ellen Shapiro, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Kelsey D. Atherton, Eric Holthaus, jesse squires 🏴, Scott Santens, Jeff Atwood, Robert Lepenies
Foreign Policy
Making China Pay Would Cost Americans Dearly
8 min read · · There are smart ways to face Beijing’s challenges, but a reckless and politicized response isn’t among them. · Shared by 14, including Balaji, dewang mishra
Foreign Policy
Why Populists Want a Multipolar World
7 min read · · Aspiring authoritarians are sick of the liberal order and eager for new patrons in Russia and China. · Shared by 10, including dewang mishra
Philosophy Now
Why Sartre Matters
20+ min read · · Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy… · Shared by 47, including dewang mishra
Scott Alexander
A Failure, But Not Of Prediction
~14 min read · · I. Vox asks What Went Wrong With The Media’s Coronavirus Coverage? They conclude that the media needs to be better at “not just saying what we do know, but what we don’t know”. This rai… · Shared by 247, including Tim Harford, Steven Pinker, zeynep tufekci, Christian Surchi, Balaji, Sanne Blauw, René Clausen Nielsen, Max Roser, Will Critchlow, Renee DiResta, Stephan J. Guyenet, Mathew Ingram, Danielle Fong 💁🏻♀️, Jay Rosen, Mark Kaigwa, dewang mishra, Taylor Pearson, Paul Graham, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
The New Statesman
Why this crisis is a turning point in history
~12 min read · · The deserted streets will fill again, and we will leave our screen-lit burrows blinking with relief. But the world will be different from how we imagined it in what we thought were normal times. This… · Shared by 86, including David Wallace-Wells, Juan Felipe Correa Giraldo, Balaji, dewang mishra, Nicolas Granatino 🌻, Thomas Power, grimm, Simon C
TIME
In the Battle Against Coronavirus, Humanity Lacks Leadership
9 min read · · People need to trust scientific experts and public authorities. Countries need to trust each other. By Yuval Noah Harari · Shared by 192, including François-Oli Devaux, The Strategy Web GmbH, Eric Topol, Vitor Furtado Silva, Rutger Bregman, Daniel Schwarz, Yuval Noah Harari, 💥 Katie Martell, Brian Tomlinson 🚢, Gerd Leonhard, dewang mishra, Antonio Vieira Santos - #SPS_Live, Jelan Ong, Marc Benioff, Merkstatt@troet.cafe
Los Angeles Review of Books
Trump, Scorsese, and the Frankfurt School’s Theory of Racket Society
~18 min read · · Mob movies and a 1930s school of social research provide clues to the Trump presidency. · Shared by 70, including Jason Stanley, John Tasioulas, Gregg Caruso, dewang mishra, Matthias Lampe
