The Atlantic
The Last Best Hope for America
20+ min read · 2020-09-09 · 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.
The Paris Review
Periwinkle, the Color of Poison, Modernism, and Dusk
9 min read · 2020-08-19 · A dreamy word for a color that exists at the edges of the night.
VICE
COVID-19 Broke the Economy. What If We Don’t Fix It?
10 min read · 2020-06-16 · 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?
BBC Breaking News
The black British history you may not know about
7 min read · 2020-06-10 · From the black Britons in Roman times, to Henry VIII's trumpeter and our very own bus boycott.
The Atlantic
The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You This
9 min read · 2020-06-12 · Peddle misinformation. Cry “conspiracy” when no one else reports it. Repeat.
The New York Times
Don’t Lose the Thread. The Economy Is Experiencing an Epic Collapse of Demand.
~11 min read · 2020-06-06 · 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.
The Atlantic
History Will Judge the Complicit
20+ min read · 2020-06-02 · Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
medium.com
Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance
20+ min read · 2020-03-19 · What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time
mkorostoff.github.io
Wealth, shown to scale
2020-04-28 · Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.
Foreign Policy
Making China Pay Would Cost Americans Dearly
8 min read · 2020-05-05 · There are smart ways to face Beijing’s challenges, but a reckless and politicized response isn’t among them.
Foreign Policy
Why Populists Want a Multipolar World
7 min read · 2020-04-27 · Aspiring authoritarians are sick of the liberal order and eager for new patrons in Russia and China.
Philosophy Now
Why Sartre Matters
20+ min read · 2020-04-15 · 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…
Scott Alexander
A Failure, But Not Of Prediction
~14 min read · 2020-04-15 · 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…
New Statesman
Why this crisis is a turning point in history
~12 min read · 2020-04-06 · 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…
TIME
In the Battle Against Coronavirus, Humanity Lacks Leadership
9 min read · 2020-03-15 · People need to trust scientific experts and public authorities. Countries need to trust each other. By Yuval Noah Harari
LA Review of Books (LARB)
Trump, Scorsese, and the Frankfurt School’s Theory of Racket Society
~18 min read · 2020-04-05 · Mob movies and a 1930s school of social research provide clues to the Trump presidency.
