Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health by Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, July/August 2018. In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African-Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.
Joe and the Whale by Chelsea Murray in The Deep, June 2018.
Jeff Sessions is Killing Civil Rights by Vann Newkirk II in The Atlantic, June 2018.
To Be An Immigrant in Trump's America: A Theory of Animals by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Jezebel, June 2018.
The Ultimate Guide to Intermittent Fasting by Katie Heaney, The Cut, June 2018.
Stop Trying to Sell the Humanities by Stanley Fish, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2018.
The Wounds of the Drone Warrior by Eyal Press, New York Times, June 2018.
Today’s Masculinity Is Stifling by Sarah Rich, The Atlantic, June 2018.
Design Thinking Is a Boondoggle by Lee Vinsel in The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2018.
The Ancient Myth of ‘Good Fences’ by Ingrid Rossellini in The New York Times, May 2018.
LETTER TO AN ASPIRING INTELLECTUAL by Paul J. Griffiths, First Things, May 2018.
WHY I’M GIVING UP ON PREVENTATIVE CARE by Barbara Ehrenreich in Literary Hub, April 2018.
Palantir Knows Everything About You by Peter Waldman, Lizette Chapman, and Jordan Robertson in Bloomberg, April 2018.
James Mattis, A Warrior in Washington by Dexter Filkins in The New Yorker, asks "The former Marine Corps general spent four decades on the front lines. How will he lead the Department of Defense?" in March 2018.
McMaster and Commander by Patrick Radden Keefe in The New Yorker, asks "Can a national-security adviser retain his integrity if the President has none?" in April 2018.
In Praise of A.D.H.D. by Leonard Mlodinow, New York Times, March 2018.
Today’s Masculinity Is Stifling by Sarah Rich, The Atlantic, June 2018.
Design Thinking Is a Boondoggle by Lee Vinsel in The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2018.
The Ancient Myth of ‘Good Fences’ by Ingrid Rossellini in The New York Times, May 2018.
The Reinvention of America by James Fallows, The Atlantic, May 2018.
Trump vs. the 'Deep State' by Eric Osnos in The New Yorker, May 2018.
Trump vs. the 'Deep State' by Eric Osnos in The New Yorker, May 2018.
LETTER TO AN ASPIRING INTELLECTUAL by Paul J. Griffiths, First Things, May 2018.
WHY I’M GIVING UP ON PREVENTATIVE CARE by Barbara Ehrenreich in Literary Hub, April 2018.
Palantir Knows Everything About You by Peter Waldman, Lizette Chapman, and Jordan Robertson in Bloomberg, April 2018.
James Mattis, A Warrior in Washington by Dexter Filkins in The New Yorker, asks "The former Marine Corps general spent four decades on the front lines. How will he lead the Department of Defense?" in March 2018.
McMaster and Commander by Patrick Radden Keefe in The New Yorker, asks "Can a national-security adviser retain his integrity if the President has none?" in April 2018.
Paul Manafort, American Hustler: The Plot Against America, by Franklin Foer in The Atlantic, March 2018. Decades before he ran the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for the corruption of Washington.
In Praise of A.D.H.D. by Leonard Mlodinow, New York Times, March 2018.
The Case Against Google by Charles Duhigg, New York Times, February 2018.
How to change the course of human history by David Graeber and David Wengrow in EuroZine, March 2018.
How to change the course of human history by David Graeber and David Wengrow in EuroZine, March 2018.
Why a leading political theorist thinks civilization is overrated, interview with Professor James Scott about his new book, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, Vox.com, April 2018.
The Amazing Story of the Russian Defector Who Changed his Mind by Jason Fagone, Washingtonian, February 2018.
Do You Believe Her Now? The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas by Jill Abramson, New York, February 2018.
The cult of Mary Beard, by Charlotte Higgins in The Guardian, January 2018.
Earlier stuff or re-reads:
Millenials Are Screwed by Michael Hobbes, Huffington Post, December 2017.
Think Before You Give: Charity Should Be More Rational and Less Emotional by Maarten Boudry, Areo, September 2017.
YOU ARE THE PRODUCT by John Lancaster, London Review of Books, August 2017.
The white flight of Derek Black by Eli Saslow in The Washington Post, October 2016.
The Tyranny of the Ideal interview with philosopher Jerry Gaus in 3:AM, July 2016.
Aches and Pains by Austin Baraki, Starting Strength, July 2016.
There’s No Such Thing as Free Will by Steven Cave, The Atlantic, June 2016.
Soldiers Have Used Drugs to Enhance Their Killing Capabilities in Basically Every War by Oscar Rickett, writing for Vice News, April 2016.
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nahesi Coates, The Atlantic, June 2014.
The Things That Carried Him by Chris Jones writing in Esquire, August 2010. Worth reading every Memorial Day.
The Agent (about Ali Soufan) by Lawrence Wright in The New Yorker, July 2006. Read this as I was watching the new Hulu mini-series, "The Looming Tower" based on Wright's Pulitzer-winning book about "Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11."
Cosmopolitanism: How To Be a Citizen of the World by Julian Brookes in Mother Jones, an interview with Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah in February 2006.
Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are by David McCullough, April 2005.
Yes, Native Americans Were the Victims of Genocide by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, historynewsnetwork.org, May 2016.
Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide? by Guenter Lewy, historynewsnetwork.org, September 2004.
1491 by Charles C. Mann in The Atlantic, March 2002. One of my favorite articles of all time.
1491 by Charles C. Mann in The Atlantic, March 2002. One of my favorite articles of all time.
America as a Gun Culture by Richard Hofstadter, American Heritage, October 1970.
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