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2024 April
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Lachlan McNamee · 4 October 2023 · aeon.co · 18 min
Geoff Shullenberger · 19 May 2021 · americanaffairsjournal.org · 27 min
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How Food Media Created Monsters in the Kitchen
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Walter Benn Michaels · 26 August 2009 · lrb.co.uk · 12 min
Fu Yu and Gui Yong on China's 1990s Generation
David Ownby · readingthechinadream.com · 33 min
Fighting anti-Asian violence cannot include apologism for the Chinese state
Promise Li · 3 April 2021 · lausancollective.com · 8 min
Eli Friedman · 23 September 2020 · lausancollective.com · 15 min
“New McCarthyism” Petition Illustrates Western Leftists’ Failure of Internationalism
Brian Hioe · 7 August 2023 · newbloommag.net · 6 min
Alex Tizon · 15 May 2017 · theatlantic.com · 38 min
Frank Guan · 2 August 2014 · nplusonemag.com · 73 min
Mallika Rao · 28 September 2022 · grubstreet.com · 6 min
Ed Schoenfeld's Chinese Food History of New York
Jacqueline Raposo · 9 August 2018 · seriouseats.com · 15 min
Asian Futurism and the Non-Other
Xin Wang · 20 April 2017 · e-flux.com · 18 min
The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now
Cedric Johnson · November 2017 · catalyst-journal.com · 48 min
How the Claremont Institute Became a Nerve Center of the American Right
Elisabeth Zerofsky · 2 August 2022 · nytimes.com · 35 min
Has Academia Ruined Literary Criticism?
Merve Emre · 22 January 2023 · newyorker.com · 21 min
“Blackness” and the Sclerosis of African American Cultural Criticism
Kenneth Warren · 9 May 2019 · nonsite.org · 29 min
Miya Perry · 28 December 2023 · palladiummag.com · 20 min
Can Cultural Identity Be Defined by Food?
Esther Choi, Ligaya Mishan · 2 November 2022 · nytimes.com · 25 min
Tom Slater, Editor · 6 January 2024 · spiked-online.com · 14 min
The Outer Limits of Liberalism
David Brooks · 3 May 2023 · theatlantic.com · 27 min
The food industry pays 'influencer’ dietitians to shape your eating habits
Sasha Chavkin · 12 September 2023 · theexamination.org · 16 min
Dan Barber · 9 May 2022 · thisismold.com · 4 min
The Unlikely Rise of the French Tacos
By Lauren Collins · 18 April 2021 · newyorker.com · 20 min
Navneet Alang · 5 March 2023 · bonappetit.com · 11 min
Food from Nowhere: Complicating Cultural Food Colonialism to Understand Matcha as Superfood
Nick Dreher · 31 May 2018 · gradfoodstudies.org · 32 min
Christine Baumgarthuber · 24 March 2016 · thenewinquiry.com · 10 min
Spies, Dossiers, and the Insane Lengths Restaurants Go to Track and Influence Food Critics
Jessica Sidman · 5 December 2017 · washingtonian.com · 15 min
Chongqing’s Number One Noodle Obsessive
Josh Freedman · 20 November 2016 · roadsandkingdoms.com · 13 min
The Problems With Food Media That Nobody Wants to Talk About
Chris Schonberger · 2 February 2016 · firstwefeast.com · 16 min
Hito Steyerl, Mean Images, NLR 140/141, March–June 2023
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How Two Irish Businessmen Almost Took Nigeria for $11 Billion
Jesse Barron · 8 February 2024 · nytimes.com · 24 min
Does High-Profile Climate Science Tell the Full Story?
Patrick T. Brown · 26 February 2024 · chronicle.com
The “Disney adult” industrial complex
Amelia Tait · 23 February 2024 · newstatesman.com · 18 min
The Limits of the Lunchbox Moment
Jaya Saxena · 7 February 2021 · eater.com · 16 min
George Hoare · 4 April 2024 · cafeamericainmag.com
Digging Into Detroit's Corned Beef Egg Roll
Tom Perkins · 31 May 2023 · seriouseats.com · 7 min
Cooking Other People’s Food: How Chefs Appropriate Bay Area ‘Ethnic’ Cuisine
Luke Tsai · 22 August 2016 · eastbayexpress.com
L. M. Sacasas · 21 February 2023 · thepointmag.com · 11 min
Mike Solana · 3 March 2024 · piratewires.com
San Francisco During the Great Food Awakening
Theodore Gioia · 30 June 2015 · vqronline.org · 14 min
The Value of Nothing: Capital versus Growth
Julius Krein · 19 August 2021 · americanaffairsjournal.org · 43 min
Beyond “Hate” | Evading the Carceral Trap of Asian American Grievance
Rose Nguyen · 31 May 2022 · thedriftmag.com · 18 min
My Ancestral Home, the Mall | Lil Miquela's Post-Racial Society
Kim Hew-Low · 30 January 2022 · thedriftmag.com · 18 min
Nick Burns · 25 May 2022 · newstatesman.com · 8 min
The Weakness of Conservative Anti-Wokeness
Richard Hanania · 19 November 2021 · americanaffairsjournal.org · 24 min
More Christian than the Christians
Sheluyang Peng · 19 February 2024 · americanaffairsjournal.org · 34 min
Omelets with Eggshells: On the Failure of the Millennial Left
Alex Hochuli · 19 February 2024 · americanaffairsjournal.org · 37 min
The Deaths of Effective Altruism
Leif Wenar · 26 March 2024 · wired.com · 34 min
2024 March
Revised version of Cucked by Capitalism
Catherine Liu · 19 February 2024 · cliuanon.substack.com · 15 min
Michael Wheeler · 27 August 2023 · usurpatormag.com · 10 min
Why Activism Leads to So Much Bad Writing
George Packer · 14 November 2023 · theatlantic.com · 12 min
Why Zizek’s Critics are Wrong—and Where They Could Have Gotten it Right
Jamil Khader · 10 December 2015 · inthesetimes.com · 16 min
In Economics, Do We Know What We’re Doing?
Angus Deaton · 12 March 2024 · chronicle.com
Your Politics Are Boring As Fuck
Nadia C · 10 April 1997 · crimethinc.com · 6 min
The Progressive Love Affair with the Carceral State
Aya Gruber · 10 March 2020 · michiganlawreview.org · 40 min
Hillary Clinton still doesn’t get it
Ashley Frawley · 13 August 2023 · unherd.com · 6 min
Why I am now a Christian - UnHerd
Ayaan Hirsi Ali · 10 November 2023 · unherd.com
Soleil Ho · 15 March 2024 · sfchronicle.com
You Don't Need to Eat at Buddakan or Morimoto Anymore
Ryan Sutton · 17 August 2015 · ny.eater.com · 9 min
We think loneliness is in our heads, but its source lies in the ruin of civil society
Kenan Malik · 23 March 2024 · theguardian.com · 5 min
When It Comes to Politics, Are Any of Us Really Thinking for Ourselves?
Neil Gross · 23 March 2024 · nytimes.com · 5 min
IS THERE A CRISIS IN FRENCH COOKING?
Adam Gopnik · 27 April 1997 · newyorker.com · 3 min
In Defense of Hegel’s Notion of Monarchy
Slavoj Žižek · 10 March 2024 · thephilosophicalsalon.com · 10 min
The Transgender-Transhumanism Pipeline is Real
Elena Louisa Lange · 13 March 2024 · elenalouisalange.substack.com · 16 min
Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious, undeniably urban—and undeniably Indigenous
Michelle Cyca · 10 March 2024 · macleans.ca · 7 min
Allison Lirish Dean · 17 September 2023 · currentaffairs.org · 28 min
Slavoj Žižek · 9 March 2024 · slavoj.substack.com · 11 min
American politics is undergoing a racial realignment
John Burn-Murdoch · 7 March 2024 · ft.com
The ACLU Is Trying to Destroy the Biden NLRB
Matt Bruenig · 7 March 2024 · nlrbedge.com · 5 min
Cleuci de Oliveira · 8 April 2018 · foreignpolicy.com · 12 min
culturallyboundgender · 8 March 2013 · culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com · 8 min
Exalting an ‘Anti-Colonial’ Gender Identity
Jonathan Kay · 2 October 2022 · quillette.com
Stop Constantly Asking Your Kids How They Feel
Abigail Shrier · wsj.com
6. Secularization comes for the religion of technology
L. M. Sacasas · 22 February 2024 · theconvivialsociety.substack.com · 5 min
2024 February
We Need to Read the Forgotten Geniuses, Not Rescue Them
Apoorva Tadepalli · 27 February 2024 · nytimes.com
The People Who Never Stopped Loving Tenet
Tim Grierson · 20 February 2024 · rogerebert.com · 31 min
Teen Subcultures Are Fading. Pity the Poor Kids.
Mireille Silcoff · 20 February 2024 · nytimes.com · 6 min
Slavoj Žižek · 8 September 2015 · lrb.co.uk · 9 min
American Fiction and the ‘Just Literature’ Problem
Tyler Austin Harper · 8 January 2024 · theatlantic.com · 13 min
What Do We Gain by Eating With Our Hands?
Kyoko Hamada, Ligaya Mishan · 17 February 2024 · nytimes.com · 13 min
The Retrograde Quest for Symbolic Prophets of Black Liberation
Adolph Reed Jr. · 16 February 2021 · newrepublic.com · 7 min
A Florida Immigration Law Is Turning Farm Towns Into ‘Ghost Towns’
Grey Moran · 6 February 2024 · civileats.com · 5 min
Layers of Identity — Real Life
Crystal Abidin · 15 April 2018 · reallifemag.com · 10 min
David Cooper · 14 September 2019 · lareviewofbooks.org · 26 min
Jacob Dreyer · 31 January 2024 · noemamag.com · 17 min
Nathan Gardels · 5 October 2023 · noemamag.com · 8 min
Hyper-liberalism : John Gray on a new cult at odds with the progressives of the past
John Gray · 29 March 2018 · the-tls.co.uk
Theory of Racelessness: A Case for Antirace(ism)
Free Black Thought · 1 December 2021 · freeblackthought.substack.com · 11 min
Meaghie Champion: Stop using "decolonization" as a fig leaf for Hamas
Meaghie Champion · 15 October 2023 · readtheline.ca · 3 min
‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything
Cory Doctorow · 7 February 2024 · ft.com
Another Acclaimed, Ambitious Restaurant Is Closing — Here’s Why
Sierra Tishgart · 5 October 2015 · grubstreet.com · 7 min
Decolonisation and its Discontents: Rethinking the Cycle of National Liberation
Kevin Ochieng Okoth · 21 September 2021 · salvage.zone · 32 min
Daniel Tutt · 31 May 2023 · aeon.co · 13 min
Polyamory, the Ruling Class’s Latest Fad
Tyler Austin Harper · 31 January 2024 · theatlantic.com · 14 min
10 Notes on the End of Affirmative Action
Coleman Hughes · 28 June 2023 · colemanhughes.substack.com · 23 min
As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.
Pamela Paul · 1 February 2024 · nytimes.com · 22 min
Where is African cinema in Hollywood?
Steven W. Thomas · 3 November 2023 · africasacountry.com · 16 min
Louise Perry · 3 September 2023 · louiseperry.co.uk · 14 min
Louise Perry · October 2023 · firstthings.com · 18 min
2024 January
How the MFA swallowed literature
Erik Hoel · 16 November 2021 · theintrinsicperspective.com
The Soft Tyranny of Modern Medicine
Akshay Pendyal · 29 May 2023 · compactmag.com · 5 min
Why Everyone Hates The Electronic Medical Record
Dharushana Muthulingam · 11 December 2023 · logicmag.io
Hourya Bentouhami · 14 October 2023 · radicalphilosophy.com · 29 min
Commodity aesthetics revisited
Wolfgang Fritz Haug · 16 May 2011 · radicalphilosophy.com · 25 min
Sam Kriss · 8 April 2023 · samkriss.substack.com · 19 min
Owen Hatherley · 21 January 2024 · aeon.co · 22 min
N.S. Lyons · 2 August 2023 · theupheaval.substack.com · 139 min
Woke: Collectivist or Individualist?
N.S. Lyons · 13 November 2023 · theupheaval.substack.com · 19 min
The Rise of the Right-Wing Progressives
N.S. Lyons · 14 January 2024 · theupheaval.substack.com · 22 min
New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church
Julia Yost · 8 August 2022 · nytimes.com · 7 min
Why car insurance in America is actually too cheap
Current topics · 17 January 2024 · economist.com · 4 min
The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline
Kathleen Belew · 13 December 2022 · theatlantic.com · 8 min
Gaby Del Valle · 11 September 2023 · thebaffler.com · 24 min
The Power – and Limits – of Xi Jinping
Zhuoran Li · 17 November 2023 · thediplomat.com · 7 min
Chinoiserie: A critique of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA’s “New Synthesis”
Chris Cutrone · 25 August 2010 · platypus1917.org · 28 min
Yascha Mounk’s Misguided War on Wokeness
Ian Beacock · 12 July 2022 · newrepublic.com · 13 min
Shaming Culture as Neoliberal Governmentality
Daniel Russo · 7 August 2022 · thephilosophicalsalon.com · 15 min
Meta-Relativism 2: Asia’s Ancient Thinkers
hiroshisatow · 23 March 2020 · bluelabyrinths.com · 14 min
Keywords: How Did Stalin and Mao Betray Marxism? Part II
Parson Young · 11 September 2015 · newbloommag.net · 11 min
Louis Menand · 21 January 2024 · newyorker.com · 23 min
Ayse Zarakol · 8 January 2024 · aeon.co · 20 min
Tara Isabella Burton · 13 December 2023 · aeon.co · 20 min
Timothy Cheek, David Ownby · 28 October 2018 · dissentmagazine.org · 11 min
Rainer Shea ☭ · 9 January 2024 · rainershea.substack.com · 6 min
The Art Scene Is Dead and the Liberal Class Killed It
Russell Dobular · 28 December 2023 · duedissidence.substack.com · 14 min
How a Super Affordable Bakery Chain Became a British Culinary Icon
Rory Smith · 29 December 2023 · nytimes.com · 6 min
Corinne Leong · 29 November 2023 · theindy.org
Astrology Won’t Liberate Anyone
Lucian Staiano-Daniels · 1 September 2023 · foreignpolicy.com · 16 min
Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.
Kirsten Luce, Hannah Dreier · 24 February 2023 · nytimes.com · 24 min
Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron · 31 August 1995 · metamute.org · 14 min
Evgeny Morozov · 9 March 2015 · thebaffler.com · 23 min
How the “No Kill” Movement Betrays Its Name
Jonathan Franzen · 31 December 2023 · newyorker.com · 39 min
Against Self-Centred Socialism
Jag Bhalla · 30 December 2023 · sublationmag.com · 17 min
Has Gratuity Culture Reached a Tipping Point?
Zach Helfand · 31 December 2022 · newyorker.com · 21 min
How the 1619 Project Distorted History
James Oakes · 26 December 2023 · jacobin.com · 48 min
2023 December
When Elite Persistence Improves Society
Daniel Skipper Rasmussen · 19 April 2022 · palladiummag.com · 13 min
Review for The Boba Book by The Boba Guys with Richard Parks III
The Shenners · 15 May 2020 · readingasiam.blog · 15 min
Taiwan finds diplomatic sweet spot in bubble tea
Erin Hale · 25 June 2020 · aljazeera.com · 6 min
The Mongol Hordes: They’re Just Like Us
Manvir Singh · 31 December 2023 · newyorker.com · 16 min
How Did Polyamory Become So Popular?
Jennifer Wilson · 31 December 2023 · newyorker.com · 12 min
When Philosophers Become Therapists
Nick Romeo · 22 December 2023 · newyorker.com · 15 min
How America’s Diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis
Christopher Flavelle, Somini Sengupta · 24 December 2023 · nytimes.com · 14 min
Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It
Li Yuan · 2 January 2019 · nytimes.com
Who are the Chinese ‘left’ nationalists?
Brian Hioe · 13 December 2020 · lausancollective.com · 11 min
Zine Magubane · 20 December 2023 · jacobin.com · 17 min
In the Face of Anti-Asian Racism, Asians and Asian Americans Need to Better Understand Each Other
Nathanael Cheng · 27 March 2021 · newbloommag.net · 28 min
Adam Westbrook, Emily Holzknecht · 20 December 2023 · nytimes.com
Alon Levy · 8 September 2019 · pedestrianobservations.com · 8 min
Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn Right
Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet · 11 December 2023 · inthesetimes.com · 25 min
Adolph Reed Jr. · 3 September 2018 · thebaffler.com · 30 min
Psychiatry Won’t Solve Our Mental Health Crisis — Only Politics Can Do That
Chandler Dandridge · 14 December 2023 · jacobin.com · 18 min
shaming people for their politics does not work
anson · 30 October 2022 · thirdthing.substack.com · 7 min
Response to Douthat on Two-Parent Families
Matt Bruenig · 29 September 2023 · mattbruenig.com · 5 min
Harvard, the NY Times and the #MeToo Takedown of a Black Academic Star
Stuart Taylor Jr. · 28 January 2019 · realclearinvestigations.com · 27 min
What Does the Working Class Really Want?
George Packer · 10 December 2023 · theatlantic.com · 21 min
Hazel V. Carby · 20 January 2021 · lrb.co.uk · 14 min
How some Michigan Muslims united with extremist Republicans against LGBTQ+ rights
Steve Neavling · 26 September 2023 · metrotimes.com · 30 min
Postliberalism: A Dangerous “New” Conservatism
Chris Wright · 23 November 2023 · sublationmag.com · 31 min
Paul Bloom · 28 November 2023 · newyorker.com · 13 min
OpenAI: Metaphysics in the C-Suite
Leif Weatherby · 21 November 2023 · jacobin.com · 9 min
A Few of the Ideas About How to Fix Human Behavior Rest on Some Pretty Shaky Science
Leif Weatherby · 29 November 2023 · nytimes.com · 6 min
2023 November
The student mental-health crisis is a myth
Ashley Frawley · 10 September 2023 · unherd.com · 3 min
Ben Jeffery · 13 January 2019 · thepointmag.com · 18 min
AI and the threat of "human extinction": What are the tech-bros worried about? It's not you and me
Émile P. Torres · 10 June 2023 · salon.com · 18 min
Silicon Valley’s vision for AI? It’s religion, repackaged.
Sigal Samuel · 9 July 2023 · vox.com · 19 min
Brian Hioe · 8 September 2021 · newbloommag.net · 14 min
IT IS OBSCENE : A TRUE REFLECTION IN THREE PARTS
Chimamanda Adichie · 14 June 2022 · chimamanda.com · 16 min
Blake Smith · 13 April 2023 · tabletmag.com
Indonesians Hate the Chinese, Because They Are Jewish
Blake Smith · 16 April 2018 · tabletmag.com
Norvell B. De · 20 December 1999 · meforum.org · 25 min
As economy falters, more Chinese migrants take a perilous journey to the US border to seek asylum
Elliot Spagat · 29 October 2023 · apnews.com · 7 min
Frantz Fanon and the American Racial Eros
Blake Smith · 13 April 2020 · tabletmag.com · 14 min
Daniel Oppenheimer · 23 May 2023 · danieloppenheimer.substack.com · 17 min
Good Immigrant Novels | Jhumpa Lahiri and the Aesthetics of Respectability
Ning Yang · 3 May 2021 · thedriftmag.com · 23 min
Daniel Oppenheimer · 3 October 2023 · danieloppenheimer.substack.com · 11 min
I was Michel Foucault's love slave
Carol Lloyd · February 1997 · salon.com
The Crisis of Therapeutic ‘Decolonization’
Geoff Shullenberger · 10 October 2023 · compactmag.com · 4 min
Ellen Huet · 6 March 2023 · bloomberg.com
Freddie deBoer · 20 October 2023 · freddiedeboer.substack.com · 11 min
Matthew Yglesias · 20 August 2023 · slowboring.com · 10 min
Behind 94 Acts of Shocking Violence, Years of Glaring Mistakes
Jose A. Alvarado Jr., Jan Ransom, Amy Julia Harris · 19 November 2023 · nytimes.com · 26 min
What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes
Daniel Immerwahr · 19 November 2023 · newyorker.com · 17 min
Capitalist Ideology And The Myth Of The Individual Self, Part 2
Henry Rosemont Jr. · 20 October 2016 · huffpost.com · 32 min
We All Think We're Individuals. Here's Why That's Not True, And Why The Lie Is Told.
Henry Rosemont Jr. · 27 May 2015 · huffpost.com · 17 min
Michael Anton · claremontreviewofbooks.com · 25 min
Bronze Age Pervert’s Dissertation on Leo Strauss - Tablet Magazine
Blake Smith · 14 February 2023 · tabletmag.com
The Impossible Bronze Age Mindset
John Ehrett · 14 April 2023 · americanreformer.org · 23 min
‘We’re sedating women with self-care’: how we became obsessed with wellness
Katherine Rowland · 31 October 2023 · theguardian.com · 11 min
About those "letters to my Asian parents about anti-black racism"
Andy Liu · 16 June 2020 · goodbye.substack.com · 12 min
How a little brown book can keep China's lovers worlds apart
Nathan VanderKlippe · 18 July 2017 · theglobeandmail.com · 6 min
These Asian American Candidates Want to Make America Great Again
Peter Savodnik · 5 November 2023 · thefp.com · 12 min
The Gentrification of Disability
Freddie deBoer · 22 May 2022 · freddiedeboer.substack.com · 14 min
Remember that study saying America is an oligarchy? 3 rebuttals say it's wrong.
Dylan Matthews · 8 May 2016 · vox.com · 13 min
Evan Osnos · 29 October 2023 · newyorker.com · 45 min
“Race Reductionism” Threatens to Doom the Left
Chris Wright · 29 August 2022 · sublationmag.com · 23 min
Wokeness: When the Labor Movement Has Been Devastated
Chris Wright · sublationmag.com · 26 min
Benjamin Studebaker · 16 April 2023 · sublationmag.com · 18 min
Fakhry Al-Serdawi · 25 July 2023 · compactmag.com · 5 min
The girlbossification of global warfare
Günseli Yalcinkaya · 26 October 2023 · dazeddigital.com · 3 min
How to Transform US Politics—and How Not To
Michael Lind · 13 March 2023 · compactmag.com · 5 min
How Has Big Publishing Changed American Fiction?
Kevin Lozano · 31 October 2023 · newyorker.com · 13 min
Katherine Dee · 15 October 2023 · unherd.com · 5 min
Brook Ziporyn · voices.uchicago.edu · 79 min
Why Anyone Can Be Chinese - WSJ
Daniel A. Bell · 13 July 2017 · wsj.com
The Modern Wisdom Of Daoist History
Dingxin Zhao · 31 October 2023 · noemamag.com · 11 min
A Non-Liberal Foundation For Robust Democracy
Inho Choi · 5 April 2023 · noemamag.com · 11 min
The deep inequity of the anti-college movement
Jose Luis Alvarado · 27 October 2023 · thehill.com
29 October 2023 · alicesparklykat.com
The Emptiness Of Literature Written For The Market
Kenneth Dillon · 25 October 2023 · noemamag.com · 15 min
Being Asian On Tinder Means Getting Rejected Or Fetishized And Neither Feels Good
Adam Chen · 23 August 2018 · buzzfeed.com · 11 min
🌟 ➡️ Clickbait · 5 April 2023 · realitygamer.substack.com · 32 min
Catherine Liu · 15 August 2023 · damagemag.com · 14 min
Catherine Liu, Drake Tyler · 28 February 2023 · damagemag.com · 8 min
The Star of Half Baked Harvest Inspires Loyalty — and Controversy
Julia Moskin, Tally Abecassis · 29 October 2023 · nytimes.com · 8 min
2023 October
The Harassment Case That Has Berkeley at a Boil
Katherine Mangan · 24 October 2023 · chronicle.com
A Left That Refuses to Condemn Mass Murder Is Doomed
Eric Levitz · 10 October 2023 · nymag.com · 10 min
Students for Pogroms in Israel
Conor Friedersdorf · 13 October 2023 · theatlantic.com · 11 min
Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative
Remi Adekoya · 5 August 2020 · unherd.com · 5 min
Antiracism is too middle-class
Remi Adekoya · 27 March 2021 · unherd.com · 10 min
P.E. Moskowitz · 8 August 2022 · mentalhellth.xyz · 13 min
The neoliberal counter-revolution
Sohrab Ahmari · 30 June 2020 · spectatorworld.com · 4 min
Ayaan Hirsi Ali · 11 July 2021 · unherd.com · 6 min
The problem with anti-woke liberals
Sohrab Ahmari · 17 February 2022 · unherd.com · 5 min
Religion, Violence, Tolerance & Progress: Nothing to do with Theology
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 31 August 2021 · medium.com · 10 min
New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education
Claire Cain Miller, Francesca Paris · 22 October 2023 · nytimes.com · 8 min
Moral Crusading Is No Substitute for Mass Working-Class Politics
Benjamin Y. Fong · July 2023 · jacobin.com · 7 min
Dialectic of Dark Enlightenments: The Alt-Right’s Place in the Culture Indu
Catherine Liu · 29 July 2017 · lareviewofbooks.org · 13 min
New York's unfair property tax system: a tale of two buildings
Sebastian Hallum Clarke · 3 October 2023 · sidewalkchorus.com · 5 min
Judith Butler · 12 October 2023 · lrb.co.uk · 14 min
The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle
Heidi Blake · 22 October 2023 · newyorker.com · 50 min
Anthony Lane · 22 October 2023 · newyorker.com · 15 min
Beyond the Myth of Rural America
Daniel Immerwahr · 22 October 2023 · newyorker.com · 17 min
The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat
Ian Urbina · 15 October 2023 · newyorker.com · 43 min
The Cult of Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: A Proletarian Critique
William I. Robinson · 2 October 2022 · thephilosophicalsalon.com · 40 min
Slavoj Žižek · 1 October 2023 · thephilosophicalsalon.com · 15 min
Iker Seisdedos · 26 September 2023 · english.elpais.com · 17 min
A Uniquely Terrible New DEI Policy
Conor Friedersdorf · 12 October 2023 · theatlantic.com · 16 min
Why Critics of Angry Woke College Kids Are Missing the Point
David Marchese · 1 May 2022 · nytimes.com · 14 min
The curse of the cool girl novelist
Charlotte Stroud · 14 September 2023 · newstatesman.com · 7 min
What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?
David Owen · 20 August 2023 · newyorker.com · 24 min
Sam Kriss · 9 October 2023 · samkriss.substack.com · 18 min
The Carnival of Cancel Culture
Ashley Frawley · 4 March 2023 · sublationmag.com · 11 min
The Enjoyment of Cycling Activism
Salvador Medina Ramírez · 10 May 2023 · sublationmag.com · 12 min
J. A. Koster · 27 July 2023 · sublationmag.com · 7 min
Capitalist Realism All Over Again
James A Smith · 16 March 2023 · sublationmag.com · 10 min
2023 September
I read "Minor Feelings" by Cathy Park Hong and Here Are My Thoughts
Minor Feelings · 10 March 2022 · totebag.substack.com · 7 min
Matthew Shen Goodman · 18 January 2022 · thebaffler.com · 14 min
Matilda Lin Berke · 7 September 2023 · spikeartmagazine.com
Absolute Invariants in Physics and Society
Slavoj Žižek · 17 September 2023 · thephilosophicalsalon.com · 12 min
Robert Skidelsky · 4 December 2019 · nybooks.com
Hikikomori: Hermits of Late-Stage Capitalism
Quique Autrey · 25 March 2023 · sublationmag.com · 6 min
Secrets of the Skin, or, Why Foucault Might Have a Problem with White Fragility
Paolo Trabattoni · 27 August 2020 · areomagazine.com · 13 min
David Graeber · 20 August 2000 · inthesetimes.com · 13 min
Rosie Gray · 15 July 2023 · politico.com · 27 min
How Bronze Age Pervert Charmed the Far Right
Graeme Wood · 2 August 2023 · theatlantic.com · 29 min
Olivia Kan-Sperling · 30 August 2023 · nplusonemag.com · 18 min
‘There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’
Susan Dominus · 7 September 2023 · nytimes.com · 20 min
Why the West will keep losing in Africa
Slavoj Žižek · 3 September 2023 · newstatesman.com · 6 min
In classical Chinese philosophy, all actions are collective
Mercedes Valmisa · 24 November 2022 · aeon.co · 19 min
For $200, a Person Can Fuel the Decline of Our Major Parties
Thomas B. Edsall · 29 August 2023 · nytimes.com · 12 min
“Men’s Rights Asians” Think This Is Their Moment
Aaron Mak · 14 September 2021 · slate.com · 23 min
How Korean Restaurants Remade Fine Dining in New York
Pete Wells · 28 August 2023 · nytimes.com · 7 min
Chris Jesu Lee · 19 July 2023 · salieriredemption.substack.com · 13 min
2023 August
COVID-19 and the End of Boba Liberal Media
Karen Shibuya · 21 April 2020 · planamag.com · 8 min
America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow
Eli Murray · 27 August 2023 · nytimes.com · 19 min
NYC Lost 100K Homes in Apartment-to-House Conversions
Rachel Holliday Smith · 23 August 2023 · thecity.nyc · 4 min
How So-Called ‘Ugly Food’ Is Challenging Notions of What We Crave
Ligaya Mishan · 13 February 2019 · nytimes.com · 8 min
When a Country’s Cuisine Becomes a Cultural Export
David Chow, Ligaya Mishan · 11 October 2022 · nytimes.com · 18 min
I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You.
Jamieson Webster · 24 August 2023 · nytimes.com · 9 min
From Relativism to Wokism: A Path of Confusion, Fallacy and Self-Destruction
Maria (Masha) Krylova · 3 August 2023 · c2cjournal.ca · 19 min
Brook Ziporyn · hackettpublishing.com · 40 min
The Acronym Behind Our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares
Émile P. Torres · 14 June 2023 · truthdig.com · 23 min
How Modernity Made Us Allergic
Theresa MacPhail · 7 August 2023 · noemamag.com · 32 min
Sam Knight · 27 August 2023 · newyorker.com · 24 min
Olympia Campbell · 16 August 2023 · unherd.com · 4 min
How conservatives use ‘verbal jiu-jitsu’ to turn liberals’ language against them
John Blake · 19 August 2023 · cnn.com
Colleges Spend Like There’s No Tomorrow. ‘These Places Are Just Devouring M
Melissa Korn · 9 August 2023 · wsj.com
Effective Altruism Has a Novelty Problem
Freddie deBoer · 9 August 2022 · freddiedeboer.substack.com · 12 min
12 August 2023 · whitehotharlots.tumblr.com · 6 min
No One is Bored, Everything is Boring
Mark Fisher · 20 July 2014 · 3ammagazine.com · 4 min
Real estate and food reporting is a missed opportunity
Alissa Quart · 23 July 2023 · cjr.org · 5 min
As Rail Profits Soar, Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School
Topher Sanders · 25 April 2012 · propublica.org · 14 min
Prologue to an Anti-Therapeutic, Anti-Affirmation Movement
Freddie deBoer · 6 August 2023 · freddiedeboer.substack.com · 14 min
The biggest names in food are just regular people on TikTok
Alicia Kennedy · 3 August 2023 · vox.com · 13 min
Frank Chin does the California coast and takes on Asian icons
Frank Chin · 22 March 1995 · sandiegoreader.com · 69 min
Ian Buruma · 10 October 2009 · latimes.com · 7 min
Ian Buruma · 1 June 2023 · harpers.org · 17 min
Greg B. Smith · 30 July 2023 · thecity.nyc · 11 min
Research spoiler: Reducing food waste has unintended consequences
Emma Bryce · 27 July 2023 · anthropocenemagazine.org · 3 min
2023 July
Leslie Jamison · 28 July 2023 · newyorker.com · 20 min
“Minor Feelings” and the Possibilities of Asian-American Identity
Jia Tolentino · 5 March 2020 · newyorker.com · 13 min
Moralism Is Ruining Cultural Criticism
Adam Kotsko · 25 July 2023 · theatlantic.com · 6 min
A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century - Tablet Magazine
Jacob Siegel · 28 March 2023 · tabletmag.com
"There is no such thing" — Review of Adorno's 'Philosophy and Sociology'
Aaron Bao · 7 June 2023 · sublationmag.com · 18 min
Letter: UFOs, Russiagate, and the Spectacle
Doug Lain · 16 June 2023 · cosmonautmag.com · 10 min
Technocracy once more, with feeling
Ashley Frawley · 20 November 2018 · spiked-online.com
AOC Is Just a Regular Old Democrat Now
Freddie deBoer · 24 July 2023 · nymag.com · 13 min
Ashley Frawley · 9 July 2022 · morningstaronline.co.uk · 6 min
Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification
Aatish Bhatia, Claire Cain Miller, Josh Katz · 23 July 2023 · nytimes.com
Of Course You Know What "Woke" Means
Freddie deBoer · 14 March 2023 · freddiedeboer.substack.com · 8 min
Afropessimism, or Black Studies as a Class Project
Adolph Reed Jr. · 25 September 2022 · nonsite.org · 12 min
“What Are the Drums Saying, Booker?”
Adolph Reed Jr. · 10 April 1995 · theobeers.com · 22 min
James Oakes · 24 January 2017 · nonsite.org · 24 min
Mark Dudzic · 29 January 2017 · firstofthemonth.org · 11 min
Race Quotas and Class Privilege at Harvard
Wesley Yang · 31 July 2018 · tabletmag.com
Tom Holland · 24 December 2022 · unherd.com · 4 min
Rob Henderson · 10 October 2020 · unherd.com
The dawn of the Bohemian Peasants
Louis Elton · 15 July 2023 · unherd.com · 3 min
Matt Huber · 15 July 2023 · jacobin.com · 7 min
Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong
Marianna Giusti · 22 March 2023 · ft.com
Isaac Wilks · 19 May 2023 · americanaffairsjournal.org · 32 min
What to Do with Climate Emotions
Jia Tolentino · 9 July 2023 · newyorker.com · 20 min
Can Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Change Our Minds?
Joshua Rothman · 9 July 2023 · newyorker.com · 17 min
Urban NIMBYism and Climate Apartheid
Alon Levy · 30 June 2023 · pedestrianobservations.com · 6 min
Black Political Life and the Blue Lives Matter Presidency
Cedric Johnson · 16 February 2019 · jacobin.com · 36 min
Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk
Evan Westra · 31 July 2021 · ndpr.nd.edu · 11 min
Adolph Reed Jr. · 10 February 2018 · nonsite.org · 37 min
The Political Economy of Anti-Racism
Walter Benn Michaels · 10 February 2018 · nonsite.org · 22 min
The Myth of Class Reductionism
Adolph Reed Jr. · 24 September 2019 · newrepublic.com · 6 min
Walter Benn Michaels · 12 August 2006 · prospect.org · 19 min
America runs on undocumented labor: Why the Boston Globe scandal deserves its own front-page story
Aviva Chomsky · 5 February 2016 · salon.com · 11 min
Talking about a ‘schism’ is ahistorical
Emily M. Bender · 4 July 2023 · medium.com · 10 min
Don't Trust An Asian American Who Went To Harvard Who Defends Harvard
Chris Jesu Lee · 2 July 2023 · salieriredemption.substack.com · 11 min
For Most College Students, Affirmative Action Was Never Enough
Mitchell L. Stevens, Quoctrung Bui, Richard Arum · 2 July 2023 · nytimes.com · 5 min
Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture? ❧ Current Affairs
Bertrand Cooper · 23 July 2019 · currentaffairs.org · 29 min
Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
RS Benedict · 13 February 2021 · bloodknife.com · 13 min
AI Writing Proves The Author Is Very Much Alive
Connor Wroe Southard · 4 April 2023 · bloodknife.com
Is It Imposter Syndrome? Or Are We All Imposters?
Raquel S. Benedict · 15 June 2022 · bloodknife.com · 6 min
The Failure of Affirmative Action
Bertrand Cooper · 18 June 2023 · theatlantic.com · 12 min
Chile’s Vote Was a Rebuke of the 21st-Century Left. Will We Listen?
Rene Rojas · 4 December 2022 · jacobin.com · 12 min
The middle-class takeover: Music is less of a meritocracy than ever before
Aimee Ferrier · 16 May 2023 · faroutmagazine.co.uk · 5 min
[Essay] Army of Altruists, by David Graeber : Harper's Magazine
David Graeber · 31 December 2006 · harpers.org · 20 min
2023 June
Class-Based Affirmative Action Is Not the Answer
Walter Benn Michaels · 30 June 2013 · prospect.org · 7 min
Why I Am More and More Ambivalent About My Autism Diagnosis
Emma Camp · 18 April 2023 · nytimes.com · 6 min
Asian American “Hipster” Rhetoric: The Digital Media Rhetoric of the Fung Brothers
Kent A. Ono, Alison Yeh Cheung · 17 December 2018 · enculturation.net · 23 min
Sam Kriss · 11 December 2021 · firstthings.com
Where Do Identity Politics Come From?
Jan Calloway · 6 July 2021 · damagemag.com · 6 min
The Psychiatric Manufacturing of Identity
Sebastian Thrul · 4 October 2022 · damagemag.com · 8 min
It's in your head: Why reducing all problems to 'mental health issues' hurts humanity
Ashley Frawley · 15 November 2021 · rt.com · 5 min
REVIEW: The Loneliest Americans is an incoherent rejection of Asian America
Sudip Bhattacharya · 18 January 2022 · reappropriate.co
They Were All Writing Like AI Anyway
Chris Jesu Lee · 24 May 2023 · salieriredemption.substack.com · 8 min
3 December 2019 · dieworkwear.com · 9 min
Can Chinese Nationalists (or their Apologists) Please Shut Up About Zhonghua?
Brian Hioe · 17 August 2022 · newbloommag.net · 15 min
E. Tammy Kim · 20 July 2020 · cjr.org · 16 min
The Dorky Social Climbers of the College Novel
Chris Jesu Lee · 8 May 2023 · salieriredemption.substack.com · 16 min
Asian American Psycho ❧ Current Affairs
Chris Jesu Lee · 13 June 2022 · currentaffairs.org · 25 min
Life Doesn’t Need a Narrative Arc
Simon Critchley · 11 June 2023 · nytimes.com · 7 min
Samuel Biagetti · 6 June 2023 · tabletmag.com
Migrations of Chineseness: Ethnicity in the Postmodern World
Ien Ang · 31 December 1988 · motspluriels.arts.uwa.edu.au · 23 min
Sam Kriss · 3 June 2023 · samkriss.substack.com · 17 min
A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’ - WSJ
Douglas Belkin · 5 September 2021 · wsj.com
Esther Wang · 16 December 2021 · curbed.com · 22 min
Lewis Parker · 20 September 2021 · medium.com · 13 min
An unhealthy and unhelpful preoccupation
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò · gga.org · 7 min
2023 May
The Angst of the Male Thirst Trapper - Tablet Magazine
Stephen G. Adubato · 14 May 2023 · tabletmag.com
How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private Party
Evan Osnos · 4 June 2023 · newyorker.com · 35 min
Five Ethico-Political Fragments
Slavoj Žižek · 10 April 2022 · thephilosophicalsalon.com · 22 min
Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo
Natasha Iskander · 4 September 2018 · hbr.org · 13 min
Jennifer Hernandez · thebreakthrough.org
A Deconstructive Analysis of The Witness
Daniel Podgorski · 14 January 2020 · thegemsbok.com · 27 min
Missouri Chinese: Two Cultures Claim This Chicken
John T. Edge · 9 March 2009 · nytimes.com · 7 min
A Town Without Zoning Fights To Stay Free
Christian Britschgi · 26 March 2023 · reason.com · 22 min
All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Federica Carugati, Cyanne Loyle · 20 April 2022 · noemamag.com · 8 min
The roots of Black political unity
Chryl N. Laird, Ismail K. White · 26 February 2020 · press.princeton.edu · 32 min
The "I" in BIPOC: Not All Native Americans are Leftist Political Activists
Sherman Alexie · 14 May 2023 · shermanalexie.substack.com · 16 min
Tara Isabella Burton · thenewatlantis.com · 16 min
Tara Isabella Burton · thenewatlantis.com · 23 min
The Mental Illness Crisis Has Hit Millennials
Jean M. Twenge · 24 April 2023 · jonathanhaidt.substack.com · 16 min
Breeding dogs to be cute and anthropomorphic is animal cruelty
Jessica Pierce · 8 March 2023 · aeon.co · 17 min
Malloy Owen · hedgehogreview.com · 26 min
LP#44: How Vermont’s Housing Crisis Got So Bad
Gary Winslett · 13 February 2023 · lppapers.substack.com · 47 min
Nutrition Science’s Most Preposterous Result
David Merritt Johns · 12 April 2023 · theatlantic.com · 16 min
Ludwig Yeetgenstein · 26 September 2021 · reallifemag.com · 10 min
Sam Kriss · 22 March 2023 · samkriss.substack.com · 14 min
From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much
Adolph Reed Jr. · 14 June 2015 · commondreams.org · 17 min
The Moral Case Against Equity Language
George Packer · 1 March 2023 · theatlantic.com · 11 min
Brock Colyar · 21 June 2022 · thecut.com · 22 min
Support for Trump is tearing apart Vietnamese American families
Terry Nguyen · 29 October 2020 · vox.com · 11 min
The Aubrey Plaza ad for Big Dairy that may have violated federal law, explained
Kenny Torrella · 4 May 2023 · vox.com · 12 min
Glenn Loury and the Great Partisan Divide
Aaron Hanna · 12 April 2023 · quillette.com · 29 min
2023 February
William Davies · 1 March 2023 · lrb.co.uk
The Irony of American Assimilation
Sheluyang Peng · 12 February 2023 · societystandpoint.substack.com · 8 min
The French Are in a Panic Over le Wokisme
Thomas Chatterton Williams · 3 February 2023 · theatlantic.com · 20 min
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
Ted Chiang · 8 February 2023 · newyorker.com · 15 min
Why Everyone Feels Like They’re Faking It
Leslie Jamison · 12 February 2023 · newyorker.com · 26 min
A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell
Vincent Lloyd · 9 February 2023 · compactmag.com · 7 min
How Americans pretend to love ‘ethnic food’
Roberto A. Ferdman · 21 April 2016 · washingtonpost.com
Dark Eucharist of the Real God
Ian Wright · 24 November 2021 · ianwrightsite.wordpress.com · 35 min
Ian Wright · 2 September 2020 · ianwrightsite.wordpress.com · 36 min
⚡ Value Beyond Instrumentalization
Jasmine Wang, Jasmine Sun · 25 August 2021 · reboothq.substack.com · 10 min
2023 January
There Never Was a West Or, Democracy Emerges From the Spaces In Between
David Graeber · 22 April 2016 · theanarchistlibrary.org · 90 min
How E-girl influencers are trying to get Gen Z into the military
Günseli Yalcinkaya · 9 January 2023 · dazeddigital.com · 3 min
A Pascalean Wager Against Scientific Determinism
Blaise Pascal · 5 June 2022 · sublationmag.com · 10 min
Why and How Class Still Matters
Nick French · 20 January 2023 · jacobin.com · 17 min
Machinic Oedipus, Machinic Multitude
edmundberger · 7 May 2013 · deterritorialinvestigations.wordpress.com · 14 min
E J Spode · aeon.co · 14 min
Elite Universities Gave Us Effective Altruism, the Dumbest Idea of the Century
Linsey McGoey · 18 January 2023 · jacobin.com · 14 min
The Cultural Turn Assigned To The Labor Beat, or the Curious Case of Gabriel Winant
Stuart Thompson · 18 January 2023 · damagemag.com · 16 min
Fat-free chocolate and absolutely no smoking: why our guilt about consumption is all-consuming
Slavoj Žižek · 20 May 2014 · theguardian.com · 7 min
Blunt-Force Ethnic Credibility
Som-Mai Nguyen · 29 June 2022 · astra-mag.com · 21 min
Among the Reality Entrepreneurs
James Duesterberg · 8 September 2022 · thepointmag.com · 45 min
The dystopia of self-sovereign identity (SSI)
18 October 2020 · generative-identity.org · 25 min
6 January 2022 · moxie.org · 17 min
Out of the Woods · 6 January 2015 · thenewinquiry.com · 16 min
Zach Kaiser · 2 January 2019 · reallifemag.com · 9 min
Evgeny Morozov, Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason, NLR 133/134, January–April 2022
Evgeny Morozov · 29 July 2021 · newleftreview.org · 55 min
Peter Brannen · 12 August 2019 · theatlantic.com · 16 min
2022 December
Sam Kriss · 17 September 2022 · samkriss.substack.com · 22 min
Social Ecology versus Deep Ecology: A Challenge for the Ecology Movement by Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin · 24 June 1987 · dwardmac.pitzer.edu · 45 min
Framing men as the ‘villains’ gets women no closer to better romantic relationships
Moya Lothian-McLean · 10 December 2022 · theguardian.com · 4 min
Elite Universities Have Promoted Destructive Republican Leaders, by Jeremi Suri
The Constitutionalist · 11 January 2021 · theconstitutionalist.org · 13 min
Emma Stamm · 31 August 2022 · reallifemag.com · 9 min
What Will Grow out of a Pocket Full of Sunflower Seeds?
Slavoj Žižek · 6 March 2022 · thephilosophicalsalon.com · 14 min
How has the Left become the Ruling Class?
Elena Louisa Lange · 14 March 2022 · beefheart.substack.com · 9 min
The Problematic Fakery Of Lil Miquela Explained—An Exploration Of Virtual Influencers and Realness
Matt Klein · 16 November 2020 · forbes.com · 9 min
The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance
Alex Vuocolo · 21 September 2022 · noemamag.com · 19 min
reallifemag · 1 September 2022 · tinyletter.com · 11 min
Uday Schultz · 20 December 2022 · homesignalblog.wordpress.com · 22 min
Isabel Munson · 31 January 2021 · reallifemag.com · 12 min
What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?
David Graeber · 11 June 2014 · thebaffler.com · 21 min
American Dreams in a Chinese Takeout
Katie Salisbury · 17 December 2018 · theringer.com · 19 min
Michelle Alleva · 20 December 2022 · somenuanceplease.substack.com · 7 min
The New Design Congress · 29 June 2021 · newdesigncongress.org · 9 min
How Friendships Change in Adulthood
Julie Beck · 21 October 2015 · theatlantic.com · 13 min
There is an internet that is mine & I would like you to live in it with me
Frank Chimero · 11 December 2022 · chias.blog · 49 min
Herminia Ibarra · 31 December 2014 · hbr.org
Elites and Capital: or, Foucault and Marx Again
unemployed negativity · 30 April 2022 · unemployednegativity.com · 12 min
You’re Living Inside a Media-Induced Delusion
Douglas Lain · 11 December 2022 · sublationmag.com · 11 min
Gabriel Winant · 9 October 2019 · nplusonemag.com · 21 min
Chi Chi Shi · historicalmaterialism.org · 39 min
I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person
Gerrit Rietveld · 4 November 2022 · palladiummag.com · 19 min
Corey Robin · 7 December 2022 · nybooks.com
Slavoj Žižek · 21 November 2022 · project-syndicate.org
"White Psychodrama" and the culture wars: A self-reinforcing cycle, going nowhere
Émile P. Torres · 23 September 2022 · salon.com · 13 min
The incredible shrinking future of college
Kevin Carey · 13 November 2022 · vox.com · 16 min
Jane H. Lii · 21 June 1997 · nytimes.com · 13 min
The Problem With Letting Therapy-Speak Invade Everything
Tara Isabella Burton · 11 November 2022 · nytimes.com · 5 min
Soros: General Theory of Reflexivity
George Soros · 25 October 2009 · ft.com
2022 October
Matt Huber, Mish-Mash Ecologism — Sidecar
Matt Huber · 17 August 2022 · newleftreview.org · 13 min
Is History History? Identity Politics and Teleologies of the Present
James H. Sweet · 16 August 2022 · historians.org · 8 min
A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression
Christopher Lane Ph.D. · 18 July 2022 · psychologytoday.com
Why I Hate Subtle Asian Traits
Julia Tabor · 29 August 2020 · lithiumagazine.com · 4 min
Can Black Literature Escape the Representation Trap?
Ismail Muhammad · 12 October 2022 · nytimes.com · 16 min
Uday Schultz · 2 September 2022 · homesignalblog.wordpress.com · 13 min
Alice Crary · 25 July 2021 · radicalphilosophy.com · 25 min
Can’t We Come Up with Something Better Than Liberal Democracy?
Adam Gopnik · 11 September 2022 · newyorker.com · 20 min
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
Douglas Rushkoff · 3 September 2022 · theguardian.com · 15 min
Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic
Émile P. Torres · 19 August 2022 · salon.com · 17 min
In Remote Alaska, Meal Planning Is Everything
Bree Kessler · 12 July 2022 · eater.com · 11 min
Exiting the Vampire Castle | openDemocracy
Mark Fisher · 23 November 2013 · opendemocracy.net
THE FALSE ALLURE OF GROUP SELECTION
Stephen Pinker, Stewart Brand, Daniel Everett, David C. Queller, Daniel C. Dennett, Herbert Gintis, Harvey Whitehouse & Ryan McKay, Peter J. Richerson, Jerry Coyne, Michael Hochberg, Robert Boyd & Sarah Mathew, Max Krasnow & Andrew Delton,Nicolas Baumard, Jonathan Haidt, David Sloan Wilson, Michael E. Price, Joseph Henrich, Randolph M. Nesse, Richard Dawkins, Helena Cronin, John Tooby · 17 June 2012 · edge.org · 46 min
Alice Gribbin · 1 November 2021 · alicegribbin.substack.com · 21 min
The Rise And Fall Of Chimerica
Jacob Dreyer · 17 August 2022 · noemamag.com · 23 min
Walter Benn Michaels · 9 September 2020 · nonsite.org · 31 min
TikTok Audio Memes Are Everywhere. How Do They Work?
Charlotte Shane · 16 August 2022 · nytimes.com · 15 min
Africa’s Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration
Nicola Twilley · 21 August 2022 · newyorker.com · 27 min
2022 August
The Neoliberal Parent Trap: Family and Its Anti-Social Fantasies
EDA Editors · 14 November 2019 · everydayanalysisorg.wordpress.com · 10 min
2022 July
L. M. Sacasas · reallifemag.com · 12 min
Ben Hickman · 19 July 2022 · compactmag.com · 5 min
What’s so bad about critical race theory?
Sam Kriss · 24 June 2021 · samkriss.com · 19 min
A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health
Mikkel Krause Frantzen · 15 December 2019 · lareviewofbooks.org · 23 min
David Wright Faladé · 10 July 2022 · newyorker.com · 30 min
The Midlife Crisis of the American Restaurant Review
Theodore Gioia · 30 December 2019 · lareviewofbooks.org · 12 min
If They Want to Be Published, Literary Writers Can’t Be Honest About Money
Naomi Kanakia · 22 June 2022 · lithub.com · 19 min
Slavoj Žižek · 14 October 1997 · newleftreview.org · 7 min
The Virtue Bubble Is About to Burst. Good Riddance.
Allison Schrager · 30 May 2022 · bloomberg.com
Fine dining faces its dark truths in Copenhagen
Imogen West-Knights · 1 June 2022 · ft.com · 19 min
Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head - Boston Review
Marco Ramos · 16 May 2022 · bostonreview.net
Ecology against Mother Nature: Slavoj Žižek on Molecular Red
Slavoj Žižek · 25 May 2015 · versobooks.com · 11 min
Blue neocolonialism – Uneven Earth
Kendall Dix · 24 January 2021 · unevenearth.org · 15 min
What Historic Preservation Is Doing to American Cities
Jacob Anbinder · 1 May 2022 · theatlantic.com · 12 min
‘Do You Speak African?’ Being a Black Immigrant In Black America
Rita Omokha · 13 April 2022 · elle.com · 10 min
Community Input Is Bad, Actually
Jerusalem Demsas · 21 April 2022 · theatlantic.com · 13 min
jversteegh · 14 November 2021 · outsideonline.com
Anand Gopal · 11 April 2022 · dissentmagazine.org · 18 min
The grand unified theory of aesthetic vlogging
Safy-Hallan Farah · 24 October 2021 · techcrunch.com · 11 min
Slavoj Žižek · 21 March 2022 · compactmag.com
Raja's (Sometimes Philosophical) Musings and Confusings
17 March 2022 · rajasmusingsconfusings.blogspot.com · 15 min
Is This the Future of New York’s Coffee Carts?
Elizabeth G. Dunn · 10 August 2021 · grubstreet.com · 11 min
Nancy Lindisfarne · 16 December 2021 · theecologist.org · 27 min
Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter
Poul-Hening Kamp · queue.acm.org · 9 min
Slavoj Žižek · 6 February 2022 · thephilosophicalsalon.com · 8 min
The Future and How to Get There: A Leftist Critique of the Modern Left
Ashley Frawley · 3 December 2019 · cultureontheoffensive.com · 18 min
John Luttig · 28 February 2021 · luttig.substack.com · 10 min
west elm caleb and the feminist panopticon
rayne fisher-quann · 21 January 2022 · internetprincess.substack.com · 11 min
Your Bubble Is Not the Culture
Yair Rosenberg · 13 January 2022 · newsletters.theatlantic.com · 13 min
David Albertson & Jason Blakely · 23 May 2021 · commonwealmagazine.org · 14 min
Melia Russell · 21 November 2021 · businessinsider.com · 12 min
Stephen Diehl · 18 November 2021 · stephendiehl.com · 5 min
Andrew Yang · andrewyang.com · 8 min
Andrew Marantz · 1 August 2021 · newyorker.com · 13 min
Zen and the Art of #VanLife Influencing
Jay Caspian Kang · 22 August 2021 · nytimes.com · 9 min
Anatomy of an Anti-Union Meeting
David Dayen · 1 August 2021 · prospect.org · 30 min
Against Social Justice Therapy
Evan Dunn · 29 June 2021 · damagemag.com · 9 min
On Techno-Orientalism — Real Life
Leo Kim · 27 June 2021 · reallifemag.com · 15 min
We Need Software Updates Forever
Mark Pesce · 20 September 2021 · spectrum.ieee.org · 8 min
E. K. Tan · 19 October 2014 · u.osu.edu
Osita Nwanevu · 18 May 2020 · newrepublic.com · 17 min
2022 June
The Argument of “Afropessimism”
Vinson Cunningham · 19 July 2020 · newyorker.com · 17 min
Feminism Made a Faustian Bargain With Celebrity Culture. Now It’s Paying the Price.
Susan Faludi · 19 June 2022 · nytimes.com · 12 min
2022 May
Rachel Laudan · 21 May 2015 · jacobin.com · 26 min
2022 March
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han – review
Stuart Jeffries · 29 December 2017 · theguardian.com · 7 min
2022 February
Rescuing Class From the Cultural Turn
Vivek Chibber · November 2017 · catalyst-journal.com · 53 min
David Harvey, The Right to the City, NLR 53, September–October 2008
David Harvey · 14 October 2008 · newleftreview.org · 29 min
Kaitlyn Tiffany · 31 January 2022 · theatlantic.com · 16 min
2022 January
The Qiao Collective and Left Diasporic Chinese Nationalism
Brian Hioe · 21 June 2020 · newbloommag.net
1 January 2022 · blog.wesleyac.com · 4 min
U.S. Housing Crisis Only Gets Worse as Population Shrinks
Conor Sen · 30 December 2021 · bloomberg.com
2021 December
How Cars Transformed Policing - Boston Review
Sarah A. Seo · 2 June 2019 · bostonreview.net
Efficiency and the Decline of American Freight Railroads
Uday Schultz · 26 December 2021 · homesignalblog.wordpress.com · 22 min
Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit
David Graeber · 7 January 2014 · thebaffler.com · 37 min
A Posthumous Shock, by Will Self
Will Self · 10 November 2021 · harpers.org · 40 min
Mary Harrington · 23 November 2021 · thecritic.co.uk · 12 min
True Crime Is Rotting Our Brains
Emma Berquist · gawker.com · 8 min
2021 November
Sonia Nair · 12 April 2018 · theliftedbrow.com · 10 min
What Did ‘Authenticity’ in Food Mean in 2019?
Jaya Saxena · 2 December 2019 · eater.com · 16 min
Chicken Soup for the Neoliberal Soul
Chris Maisano · 20 January 2014 · jacobin.com · 4 min
Is It Just Me Or... Do We Need To Talk About Online Social Justice Culture?
Megan Jayne Crabbe · 19 November 2021 · meganjaynecrabbe.substack.com · 13 min
Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden
Melanie Hamlett · 1 May 2019 · harpersbazaar.com · 14 min
Tim Requarth · 7 November 2021 · slate.com · 11 min
aj · 12 November 2021 · apposition.substack.com · 18 min
Should California make solar more expensive? Inside the climate justice battle
Sammy Roth · 1 November 2021 · latimes.com · 13 min
2021 October
Does Co-Housing Provide a Path to Happiness for Modern Parents?
Judith Shulevitz · 21 October 2021 · nytimes.com · 20 min
Sam Kriss · 11 October 2021 · firstthings.com · 22 min
The Myth of Asian American Identity
Jay Caspian Kang · 4 October 2021 · nytimes.com · 33 min
Jennifer Pan · 11 March 2015 · aaww.org · 10 min
2021 September
Why Science Can't Settle Political Disputes
Taylor Dotson · 28 September 2021 · thereader.mitpress.mit.edu · 15 min
There is No Such Thing as "Punching Up" or "Punching Down"
Freddie deBoer · 27 September 2021 · freddiedeboer.substack.com · 10 min
The housing theory of everything
John Myers · worksinprogress.co · 24 min
The Rat Maze: Capitalism and Consciousness
Key MacFarlane · 9 November 2020 · bluelabyrinths.com · 15 min
In defense of the “gentrification building”
Jerusalem Demsas · 9 September 2021 · vox.com · 8 min
We’re Getting Rid of Starred Restaurant Reviews at Eater
Ryan Sutton · 31 August 2021 · ny.eater.com · 14 min
Climate Change Is Bankrupting America’s Small Towns
Mike Belleme, Christopher Flavelle · 1 September 2021 · nytimes.com · 10 min
2021 August
What’s Dark about Dark Academia
Ana Quiring · 30 March 2021 · avidly.lareviewofbooks.org · 10 min
Erin Douglas · 1 August 2021 · texastribune.org · 13 min
Amanda Knox · 28 July 2021 · amandamarieknox.medium.com · 8 min
2021 July
'Attractive for an Asian man’: Photog reframes Asian American masculinity
Kristin Leong · 10 June 2021 · kuow.org · 11 min
A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake
Dan Egan · 7 July 2021 · nytimes.com · 23 min
Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America
Karen E. Fields · 7 July 2016 · versobooks.com · 44 min
2021 June
“Jess La Bombalera” and the Pathologies of Racial Authenticity
Touré F. Reed · 5 September 2020 · jacobin.com · 4 min
Glass Onion’s cinematographer wants to end the film-vs.-digital debate
Charlie Heller · 5 February 2020 · polygon.com · 10 min
“Why Are Developers Only Building Luxury Housing?”
Daniel Herriges · 24 July 2018 · strongtowns.org
Caste Does Not Explain Race | Boston Review
Charisse Burden-Stelly · 13 December 2020 · bostonreview.net
The Cost of Being an ‘Interchangeable Asian’
Brian X. Chen · 5 June 2021 · nytimes.com · 14 min
2021 May
Aziz Rana · 6 December 2015 · nplusonemag.com · 22 min
Tara Bahrampour · 19 July 2018 · washingtonpost.com
What We Can Learn From the Rise and Fall of ‘Political Blackness’
Kwame Anthony Appiah · 6 October 2020 · nytimes.com · 10 min
The inadequacy of the term “Asian American”
Li Zhou · 4 May 2021 · vox.com · 20 min
Elena Louisa Lange · 12 January 2021 · beefheart.substack.com · 15 min
The 11th Reason to Delete your Social Media Account: the Algorithm will Find You
24 April 2021 · simondedeo.com · 17 min
2021 April
Why Do Fast-Casual Restaurants Get a Pass on Appropriation?
Jenny Dorsey · 4 October 2020 · eater.com · 12 min
Hans-Georg Moeller · 2 October 2020 · mediastudies.asia · 10 min
Opinion : It’s Going to Be Weird, but We Need to Learn to Live With Germs Again
Markham Heid · 22 April 2021 · nytimes.com · 13 min
“Good Design” Is Making Bad Cities, but It Doesn’t Have To
Henry Grabar · 11 April 2021 · slate.com · 14 min
The Dark Side of the Houseplant Boom
Megan Garber · 19 April 2021 · theatlantic.com · 15 min
The Repressive Politics of Emotional Intelligence
Merve Emre · 18 April 2021 · newyorker.com · 17 min
Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake
15 January 2020 · economist.com · 5 min
Danielle Carr · 19 August 2020 · pioneerworks.org
A Bigger City is a Better City
Alon Levy · 29 May 2020 · pedestrianobservations.com · 5 min
A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth
Dana Goodyear · 6 October 2019 · newyorker.com · 29 min
Securing Democracy with Glenn Greenwald (aka What's Wrong with the Online Left?)
Zer0 Books and Repeater Media · 4 April 2021 · youtube.com
The Best Friends Can Do Nothing for You
Arthur C. Brooks · 7 April 2021 · theatlantic.com · 7 min
Katy Waldman · 6 April 2021 · newyorker.com · 9 min
Blake Smith · 16 May 2018 · tabletmag.com · 17 min
Jeannie Suk Gersen · 30 March 2021 · newyorker.com · 11 min
Some Relatively Optimistic Predictions About Post-COVID Cities
Alex Schieferdecker · 1 April 2021 · streets.mn · 15 min
The Politics of the Anthropocene in a World After Neoliberalism | Boston Re
Duncan Kelly · 8 March 2021 · bostonreview.net
The Politics of a Second Gilded Age
Matt Karp · 16 February 2021 · jacobin.com · 29 min
‘Conspirituality’ Explains Why the Wellness World Fell for QAnon
Shayla Love · 15 December 2020 · vice.com · 16 min
Young, deported, and learning to code
Caroline Tracey · 29 March 2021 · restofworld.org · 10 min
'Mighty' Ira Glasser & the ACLU Foundation
James Kirchick · 30 March 2021 · tabletmag.com
Robert Sakrowski · 25 November 2015 · schirn.de · 5 min
2021 March
The Rise of Victimhood Culture
Conor Friedersdorf · 10 September 2015 · theatlantic.com · 11 min
Medicine's Machine Learning Problem | Boston Review
Rachel Thomas · 3 November 2020 · bostonreview.net
Broken bolts: Structural problems on the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge were covered up
Brendan J. Lyons · 6 March 2021 · timesunion.com · 23 min
'Civilization' and Strategy Games' Progress Delusion
Gabriel Soares · 16 December 2019 · vice.com · 9 min
Hedy Bok · scmp.com · 10 min
Where people go to bars to drink milk
Glory Iribagiza · 23 March 2021 · bbc.com · 9 min
Thomas Edwards · hedgehogreview.com · 12 min
Is Streetwear a Machine That Turns Insecurity Into Money?
Eugene Rabkin · 5 August 2020 · highsnobiety.com · 7 min
Why Your ‘True Self’ Is An Illusion
Shayla Love · 18 March 2021 · vice.com · 13 min
The 2021 Early-Retirement Update
livafi · 16 March 2021 · livingafi.com · 43 min
For Texas, a Harbinger of Things to Come
Johnny Sanphillippo · 21 March 2021 · strongtowns.org · 8 min
How Polyamorists and Polygamists Are Challenging Family Norms
Andrew Solomon · 21 March 2021 · newyorker.com · 47 min
How Remote Work Is Reshaping America’s Urban Geography - WSJ
Richard Florida, Adam Ozimek · 4 March 2021 · wsj.com
Edward L. Glaeser · 4 July 2016 · city-journal.org · 20 min
A Walking Tour of 1866 New York
Audrey Levine · 26 July 2016 · ny.curbed.com · 22 min
The Fantasies of Video Game Cities Can’t Escape Real Social Contradictions – Byline Times
Jon Bailes · 23 March 2020 · bylinetimes.com · 5 min
Podcasters are People: The Intimacy of Medium vs. Parasocial Relationships
Wil Williams · 3 January 2019 · wilwilliams.reviews · 23 min
GGBVanix · 20 September 2020 · esportsearnings.com · 29 min
‘Resilience bonds’: A secret weapon against catastrophe
Amanda Ruggeri · 14 May 2017 · bbc.com · 11 min
Insuring Climate Change: New Risks and the Financialization of Nature
Razmig Keucheyan · 1 February 2018 · onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Michael Lewis · 25 August 2007 · nytimes.com · 37 min
The challenges of mapping gentrification
Eric Jaffe · 26 February 2020 · medium.com · 9 min
What if liberal anti-racists aren’t advancing the cause of equality?
Bhaskar Sunkara · 5 March 2021 · theguardian.com · 10 min
Stephen Beachy · 9 April 2019 · nymag.com · 32 min
I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it
Jack Koloskus · 3 March 2021 · inputmag.com · 12 min
Wim Lunsing · 11 January 2006 · intersections.anu.edu.au
There’s no need for New Zealand-style xenophobia to curb UK house prices
Guy Shrubsole · 15 August 2018 · theguardian.com · 4 min
Lory Hough · gse.harvard.edu · 13 min
Jeremy Kun · 14 October 2020 · buttondown.email · 5 min
Travel influencers, meet authoritarian regimes
Krithika Varagur · 18 October 2020 · restofworld.org · 13 min
The road to electric is filled with tiny cars
Lavender Au · 21 February 2021 · restofworld.org · 11 min
US Medical Industry & A Broken Society - Tablet Magazine
Alana Newhouse · 16 May 2018 · tabletmag.com
2021 February
Shannon Stirone · 25 February 2021 · theatlantic.com · 4 min
Those People We Tried to Cancel? They’re All Hanging Out Together
John McDermott · 1 November 2019 · nytimes.com · 12 min
Decolonizing Electronic Music Starts With Its Software
Tom Faber · 24 February 2021 · pitchfork.com · 7 min
Ann Babe · 13 July 2020 · restofworld.org · 15 min
Stop marketing race-blind policies as racial equity initiatives
Marc Novicoff · 19 February 2021 · slowboring.com · 9 min
A Same-Sex Domestic Violence Epidemic Is Silent
Maya Shwayder · 4 November 2013 · theatlantic.com · 22 min
What Is the Current Student Debt Situation?
Matt Bruenig · 15 November 2020 · peoplespolicyproject.org · 10 min
Jenna Wortham · 16 February 2021 · nytimes.com · 12 min
Towards an Artificial Carbohydrates Supply on Earth
Gilles François Billen · 6 July 2020 · frontiersin.org · 50 min
The ‘balance of nature’ is an enduring concept. But it’s wrong.
Tik Root · 25 July 2019 · nationalgeographic.com · 5 min
In Furor Over Poet With Child Porn Conviction, Prison Abolitionists Debate the Limits of Mercy
Judith Levine · 13 February 2021 · theintercept.com · 9 min
Towards a More Inclusive Urbanism
John Moore · 8 October 2020 · theamericanconservative.com · 9 min
Indie Bosses Are Still Bosses: Exploitation and Unionization at Small Game Studios
Robin Trach · medium.com · 13 min
Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer
ewanbirney · 23 October 2019 · ewanbirney.com · 16 min
Cade Metz · 12 February 2021 · nytimes.com · 13 min
If You Want a Marriage of Equals, Then Date as Equals
Ellen Lamont · 13 February 2020 · theatlantic.com · 6 min
Kashmir Hill · 29 January 2021 · nytimes.com · 17 min
'Community Preference' Lawsuit at Center of Affordable Housing, Segregation Debates
Ethan Geringer-Sameth · 28 March 2017 · gothamgazette.com · 14 min
Why is the Anglo media portraying France as the villain?
Liam Duffy · 28 October 2020 · unherd.com · 6 min
How bodybuilding’s major federation reins in the size of female athletes
Carson McNamara · 31 January 2021 · believermag.com · 28 min
Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World
Rachel Monroe · 5 February 2021 · theatlantic.com · 23 min
Matt Levine · 24 August 2016 · bloomberg.com
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
Molly Ball · 3 February 2021 · time.com · 31 min
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Liberalism
Gus Breslauer · 26 November 2020 · regenerationmag.org · 22 min
Jay Caspian Kang · 2 February 2021 · nytimes.com · 29 min
Municipal Utility Districts in Texas have sweeping power to sell bonds, levy taxes
James Drew · 20 August 2016 · houstonchronicle.com
2021 January
TERF wars: Why British media is increasingly transphobic
V.S. Wells · xtramagazine.com · 14 min
Jennifer Barnett · 29 January 2021 · jenzerb.medium.com · 16 min
The Rise (and Stall) of the Boba Generation
Jenny G. Zhang · 4 November 2019 · eater.com · 22 min
Privacy Labels and Lookalike Audiences
Ben Thompson · 7 December 2020 · stratechery.com · 17 min
We Need to Change the Terms of the Debate on Trans Kids
Masha Gessen · 12 January 2021 · newyorker.com · 11 min
In Sweden, the rent is too damn low
Charlie Duxbury · 27 November 2019 · politico.eu · 5 min
Abigail Pesta · features.texasmonthly.com · 35 min
The “induced demand“ case against YIMBYism is wrong
Matthew Yglesias · 26 January 2021 · slowboring.com · 12 min
Report: One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 hours a day
Lydia Dishman · 24 January 2021 · fastcompany.com
Spaces for living: How Tokyo’s urban landscape deals with change
Russell Thomas · 4 December 2020 · japantimes.co.jp · 11 min
The Journalist and the Pharma Bro
Stephanie Clifford · 19 December 2020 · elle.com · 20 min
They Used to Post Selfies. Now They’re Trying to Reverse the Election.
Stuart A. Thompson, Charlie Warzel · 13 January 2021 · nytimes.com · 14 min
Is organic really better for the environment than conventional agriculture?
Hannah Ritchie · 18 October 2017 · ourworldindata.org · 12 min
Google, Facebook Agreed to Team Up Against Possible Antitrust Action, Draft
John D. McKinnon · 21 December 2020 · wsj.com
Can You Really Be Addicted to Video Games?
Ferris Jabr · 21 October 2019 · nytimes.com · 33 min
What Is FONO? Toxic Positivity Is Doing More Harm Than Good - Bloomberg
Mark Ellwood · 13 January 2021 · bloomberg.com
White women’s role in white supremacy, explained
Anna North · 14 January 2021 · vox.com · 9 min
The social ideology of the motorcar
André Gorz · 10 August 2018 · unevenearth.org · 16 min
Isabelle Kohn · melmagazine.com · 21 min
The Five Crises of the American Regime - Tablet Magazine
Michael Lind · tabletmag.com
The psychology of Soylent and the prison of first-world food choices
Lee Hutchinson · September 2017 · arstechnica.com · 27 min
What we still haven’t learned from Gamergate
Aja Romano · 2 January 2020 · vox.com · 22 min
With “Dynamite,” BTS beat the US music industry at its own cheap game
Aja Romano · vox.com · 13 min
Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection
Roger McNamee · wired.com · 5 min
Step by step, Americans are sacrificing the right to walk
Antonia Malchik · aeon.co · 15 min
Cars vs. Bikes vs. Pedestrians
Maria Konnikova · 4 November 2015 · newyorker.com · 7 min
Bike-Dominated Amsterdam Is Not a Walker's Paradise
Sophie Knight · 26 August 2019 · bloomberg.com
April 2014 · urbankchoze.blogspot.com · 10 min
Playing the Game of Infinite Leverage
Matt Levine · 5 November 2019 · bloomberg.com · 17 min
The Great Showdown of Hierarchical Polyamory vs. Relationship Anarchy
Kat Jercich · thenewmodality.com · 9 min
City Observatory - Covid & Cities: Reasons for optimism
Joe Cortright · 8 November 2020 · cityobservatory.org
City Observatory - The Great Disconnect: The perverse rhetoric of gentrification
Jason Segedy · 28 September 2020 · cityobservatory.org
The Problem with Implicit Bias Training
Tiffany L. Green · scientificamerican.com · 4 min
The Pandemic Disproved Urban Progressives’ Theory About Gentrification
Jacob Anbinder · 1 January 2021 · theatlantic.com · 10 min
La Ville du quart d’heure : utopie? fantasme? écran de fumée?
Alice Delaleu · 24 August 2020 · chroniques-architecture.com · 8 min
Hannah Selinger · eater.com · 28 min
2020 December
College Admissions Fiction and the Asian American Teen Imaginary
Kion You · lareviewofbooks.org · 10 min
Toxic Internet Culture From East To West
Brett Fujioka · noemamag.com · 15 min
OTL: Football facing growing insurance issue
Steve Fainaru · espn.com · 26 min
Why Some Women Choose to Get Circumcised
Olga Khazan · April 2015 · theatlantic.com · 14 min
The hidden hand that uses money to reform troubled police departments
Kit Ramgopal and Brenda Breslauer · nbcnews.com · 10 min
Anne Applebaum · 14 January 2021 · nybooks.com
Automobile Dependency: An Unequal Burden
Todd Litman · 14 December 2020 · planetizen.com · 8 min
Do We Need Police To Curb LA's Traffic Violence? Some Cities Are Saving Lives Without Them
Ryan Fonseca · 23 September 2020 · laist.com · 16 min
Immigrant Neighborhoods Shifted Red as the Country Chose Blue
Ford Fessenden, Weiyi Cai · 20 December 2020 · nytimes.com · 21 min
Urban vs. Rural Sustainability
Toby Hemenway · 24 December 2004 · resilience.org · 13 min
What nobody told me about small farming: I can't make a living
Jaclyn Moyer · 10 February 2015 · salon.com · 12 min
Cities: Skylines Is a Gentrifier's Dream
Dante Douglas · 4 January 2017 · pastemagazine.com · 6 min
The Mandalorian: This Is the Way - The American Society of Cinematographers
Jay Holben · ascmag.com
Stop Believing in Free Shipping
Amanda Mull · January 2020 · theatlantic.com · 7 min
Marie E. Berry, Milli Lake · bostonreview.net · 10 min
Orientalism, Cyberpunk 2077, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction
George Yang · wired.com · 10 min
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says.
Karen Hao · 4 December 2020 · technologyreview.com · 9 min
Amid Covid, the Air Hazards of Gas Appliances Draw New Scrutiny
Jonathan Mingle · 2 December 2020 · undark.org · 23 min
Can Extra Taxes on Vacant Land Cure City Blight?
Elaine S. Povich · 6 March 2017 · pewtrusts.org · 6 min
From Conservation to Colonization
Stephen M. Walt · 16 July 2018 · foreignpolicy.com · 12 min
The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret
Oliver Balch · 8 December 2020 · theguardian.com · 20 min
Ferris Jabr · 2 December 2020 · nytimes.com · 27 min
Tech journalism’s ‘on background’ scourge
Brian Merchant · cjr.org · 7 min
Robert Sietsema · 24 February 2010 · cjr.org · 19 min
Margaret Gray · August 2016 · jacobin.com · 11 min
Elizabeth Dwoskin · 3 December 2020 · washingtonpost.com
Why We Shouldn’t Compare Transracial to Transgender Identity
Robin Dembroff, Dee Payton · bostonreview.net
Why Players Blame Skill-Based Matchmaking for Losing in Call of Duty
Steve Rousseau · vice.com · 7 min
A Libertarian’s Case Against Free Markets in Health Care
Roman Zamishka · 2 August 2018 · thehealthcareblog.com · 12 min
2020 November
Wildfires Are Close to Torching the Insurance Industry in California
Eric Roston, Leslie Kaufman · 10 November 2020 · bloomberg.com · 14 min
The ‘Whitening’ of Asian Americans
Iris Kuo · August 2018 · theatlantic.com · 10 min
Structural racism is taking a toll on children’s mental health
Kristen Rogers · November 2020 · cnn.com
Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò · thephilosopher1923.org · 20 min
Rebecca Amato · 7 March 2018 · urbanomnibus.net · 18 min
The Strange Liberal Backlash to Woke Culture
Tim Robinson · newrepublic.com · 18 min
Bilal Ahmed · southasiajournal.net · 15 min
Fear of a Yellow Planet: Why We Need to Actually Understand Cyberpunk
Alexis Ong · fanbyte.com · 9 min
NYTimes: ‘People of Color’ Do Not Belong to the Democratic Party
Jay Caspian Kang · 20 November 2020 · nytimes.com
New York isn’t dying. The rich are moving out and the city is being reborn
Arwa Mahdawi · 1 September 2020 · theguardian.com · 3 min
The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders
Clive Thompson · wired.com · 5 min
Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time
Derek Thompson · July 2020 · theatlantic.com · 7 min
‘It’s genuine, you know?’: why the online influencer industry is going ‘authentic’
Sophie Elmhirst · 5 April 2019 · theguardian.com · 25 min
Terry Nguyen · vox.com · 9 min
Inside Game: California YIMBY, Scott Wiener, and Big Tech’s Troubling Housing Push
Patrick Range McDonald · 13 January 2020 · housinghumanright.org · 25 min
'They pointed their guns at us and started shooting'
Stephanie Busari, Nima Elbagir · 18 November 2020 · cnn.com · 12 min
Why Nostalgia Is Our New Normal
David Berry · thewalrus.ca · 13 min
Self-Help Hacks at the End of the World
Sarah Wilson-Austensen · newrepublic.com · 7 min
My Journey from Free Market Ideologue to Strong Towns Advocate, Part 7: The Nature of Markets
Charles Marohn · 4 August 2019 · strongtowns.org · 12 min
Stephen Snyder · lithub.com · 22 min
Restaurant Reviewing Needs a Revamp
Edward Lee · heated.medium.com · 9 min
What Liberals Don’t Understand About Pro-Trump Latinos
Christian Paz · October 2020 · theatlantic.com · 8 min
America has local political institutions but nationalized politics. This is a problem.
Lee Drutman · 3 May 2018 · vox.com · 12 min
Why the Social Media Rage Machine Won’t Stop
Margaret O’Mara · 3 November 2020 · nytimes.com · 6 min
[Letter from Utah] : Bounty Hunters, by Jeremy Miller : Harper's Magazine
Jeremy Miller · January 2017 · harpers.org · 23 min
Tejal Rao · 4 August 2020 · nytimes.com · 8 min
What We Build Is More Important Than What We Save
Carl Simon · theamericanconservative.com · 7 min
Rachel Sugar · vox.com · 15 min
2020 October
How to Get Your Friends to Stop Treating You Like a Therapist
Allie Volpe · 19 October 2020 · nytimes.com · 6 min
Are We Trading Our Happiness for Modern Comforts?
Arthur C. Brooks · October 2020 · theatlantic.com · 8 min
The World Is Trapped in America’s Culture War
Helen Lewis · October 2020 · theatlantic.com · 10 min
Violations of Boys’ Bodies Aren’t Taken Seriously
Matthew Black · medium.com · 15 min
It’s 2020: Why Is The Internet Still Treated Like A Luxury, Not A Utility?
Neil deMause · gothamist.com · 12 min
America’s Exceptional Housing Crisis
Bryan Schonfeld, Sam Winter-Levy · 16 September 2020 · foreignaffairs.com · 9 min
How NIMBYs Made ‘Back Yard’ Mean ‘Entire Neighborhood’
Garrett Dash Nelson · 5 February 2019 · bloomberg.com
India’s engineers have thrived in Silicon Valley. So has its caste system.
Nitasha Tiku · 27 October 2020 · washingtonpost.com
Orthorexia shouldn't be socially accepted
Nyla Booras · michigandaily.com · 5 min
What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?
Rhaina Cohen · October 2020 · theatlantic.com · 20 min
'Good-looking for an Asian': how I shed white ideals of masculinity
Matthew Salesses · 23 October 2020 · theguardian.com · 9 min
Yowei Shaw · 4 April 2019 · npr.org · 6 min
What’s left of New York’s Dutch past?
Andrea Valentino · 18 November 2019 · bbc.com · 11 min
An Arrest in Canada Casts a Shadow on a New York Times Star, and The Times
Ben Smith · 11 October 2020 · nytimes.com · 14 min
Yu Kang · scmp.com
Ad Tech Could Be the Next Internet Bubble
Gilad Edelman · wired.com · 10 min
California Will Keep Burning. But Housing Policy Is Making It Worse.
Elizabeth Weil · 1 October 2020 · propublica.org · 13 min
The Trouble with Carbon Pricing
Leah C. Stokes, Matto Mildenberger · bostonreview.net · 20 min
2020 September
Instagram is broken. It also broke us.
Rebecca Jennings · 2 December 2019 · vox.com · 13 min
The ‘Dating Market’ Is Getting Worse
Ashley Fetters, Kaitlyn Tiffany · February 2020 · theatlantic.com · 13 min
blautoothdmand · the-artifice.com · 23 min
How Can I Avoid Feeling Lonely When All My Friends Are Coupled Up?
Ligaya Mishan · 21 September 2020 · nytimes.com · 6 min
Brian Justie · reallifemag.com · 12 min
How a Pledge to Dismantle the Minneapolis Police Collapsed
Astead W. Herndon · 26 September 2020 · nytimes.com · 13 min
Brian Patrick Eha · city-journal.org · 18 min
Inside eBay’s Cockroach Cult: The Ghastly Story of a Stalking Scandal
David Streitfeld · 26 September 2020 · nytimes.com · 20 min
Jessa Crispin · bostonreview.net · 12 min
Harvard’s Chetty Finds Economic Carnage in Wealthiest ZIP Codes
Ben Steverman · 24 September 2020 · bloomberg.com
On being diagnosed with irony poisoning
Piia Varis · diggitmagazine.com · 9 min
The feminist case for Jordan Peterson
Louise Perry · thecritic.co.uk · 16 min
Josephine Bartosch · thecritic.co.uk · 13 min
Ann Choi · projects.newsday.com · 10 min
Neoliberal Hong Kong Is Our Future, Too
Macabe Keliher · bostonreview.net · 21 min
What Liberals Get Wrong About Work
Michael J. Sandel · 1 September 2020 · theatlantic.com · 12 min
How Climate Migration Will Reshape America
Abrahm Lustgarten · 15 September 2020 · nytimes.com · 27 min
America’s Enduring Caste System
Isabel Wilkerson · 1 July 2020 · nytimes.com · 52 min
Phoebe Maltz Bovy · newrepublic.com · 12 min
Phoebe Maltz Bovy · theglobeandmail.com
What I Learned at the Most Instagrammed Outdoor Places
Lisa Chase · outsideonline.com · 19 min
Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind
Rachel Kushner · 17 April 2019 · nytimes.com
How Did WeWork’s Adam Neumann Build a $47 Billion Company?
Reeves Wiedeman · June 2019 · nymag.com · 31 min
Joshua Rothman · 21 January 2019 · newyorker.com · 20 min
White people have gentrified Black Lives Matter. It’s a problem
Erin B. Logan · 4 September 2020 · latimes.com · 4 min
When should the state jump in to address local problems?
Spencer Gardner · 7 September 2020 · strongtowns.org · 6 min
Zoom Fatigue and the New Ways to Party
Anna Russell · newyorker.com · 8 min
Will We Ever Get To Play "One City Block"?
Jim Rossignol · 31 October 2012 · rockpapershotgun.com · 7 min
Gas Companies Are Abandoning Their Wells, Leaving Them to Leak Methane Forever
Mya Frazier · 17 September 2020 · bloomberg.com
Coffee Rust Is Going to Ruin Your Morning
Maryn McKenna · September 2020 · theatlantic.com · 20 min
Will Corporate Social-Justice Initiatives Be More Than Just a Fad?
David Weitzner · 31 August 2020 · quillette.com · 10 min
The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism
Baz Edmeades · 6 September 2020 · quillette.com · 10 min
Julia Serano · geneseo.edu
‘Cultural appropriation’ is American cultural imperialism
Douglas Murray · September 2020 · unherd.com · 5 min
Why defunding the police will hurt women most
Louise Perry · September 2020 · unherd.com · 5 min
It’s Time to Abolish Single-Family Zoning
Charles Marohn · 2 July 2020 · theamericanconservative.com · 5 min
Purity test: Democrats clash over Biden diversity goals
Zachary Warmbrodt · 7 September 2020 · politico.com · 6 min
William Shoki · January 2020 · africasacountry.com · 19 min
The Last Days of John Allen Chau
Alex Perry · outsideonline.com · 49 min
2020 August
Futurists forget that we have bodies
Giles Fraser · 18 August 2020 · unherd.com · 5 min
2020 July
All You Can Eat? Inside the Intuitive Eating Craze
Tamar Adler · vogue.com · 9 min
Why women – including feminists – are still attracted to ‘benevolently sexist’ men
Pelin Gül, Tom R. Kupfer · theconversation.com · 4 min
Why Won’t Woke Boys Pay for Sex?
Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard · melmagazine.com · 10 min
Ferris Jabr · hakaimagazine.com · 15 min
Brendan Borrell · hakaimagazine.com · 14 min
Sasha Chapman · hakaimagazine.com · 17 min
The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism
Osita Nwanevu · newrepublic.com · 23 min
Alison Roman and the NYT's Treatment of Asians and Asian Cuisine
Kim Hew-Low · planamag.com · 12 min
Police Surveilled George Floyd Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr
Sam Biddle · 9 July 2020 · theintercept.com · 14 min
Why even driving through suburbia is soul crushing
Alex Balashov · qz.com · 15 min
Opinion | I’ve Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing - The New York
Farhad Manjoo · 8 July 2020 · nytimes.com
It seems black lives don't matter quite so much, now that we've got to the hard bit
Nesrine Malik · 6 July 2020 · theguardian.com · 4 min
Benjamin Crisp · medium.com
2020 June
Luke Neher · June 2020 · overland.org.au · 7 min
You can't defeat racism with 'reading lists'. Take it from a feminist – we tried this
Jessa Crispin · 12 June 2020 · theguardian.com · 4 min
Will Feminism’s Past Mistakes Haunt #MeToo?
Judith Levine · bostonreview.net · 13 min
Tea, Biscuits, and Empire: The Long Con of Britishness
Laurie Penny · 18 June 2020 · longreads.com · 24 min
Losing the Narrative: The Genre Fiction of the Professional Class
James McElroy · May 2020 · americanaffairsjournal.org · 23 min
Yascha Mounk · June 2020 · theatlantic.com · 10 min
Leah Varjacques, Hadi Al Khatib, Adam Saewitz, Dia Kayyali · 23 October 2019 · nytimes.com · 3 min
The woke have no vision of the future
John Gray · June 2020 · unherd.com · 5 min
Minority Victimization, Power & Agency
Zaid Jilani · tabletmag.com
The Secret Recipe for Dynamite Urban Parks
Anthony Paletta · 4 June 2020 · theamericanconservative.com · 7 min
Tou Thao and the Myths of Asian American Solidarity
Time To Say Goodbye · timetosaygoodbyepod.substack.com · 4 min
Patrick Nathan · reallifemag.com · 13 min
The Car Culture That’s Helping Destroy the Planet Was By No Means Inevitable
Jeff Sparrow · 26 November 2019 · lithub.com · 26 min
This is the End of the Suburban Experiment
Charles Marohn · 26 April 2020 · strongtowns.org · 11 min
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · newyorker.com · 23 min
The Real Reason Your City Has No Money
Charles Marohn · 9 January 2017 · strongtowns.org · 6 min
The Suburbs Will Die: One Man's Fight to Fix the American Dream
Leigh Gallagher · 27 July 2014 · time.com · 11 min
Welcome to America’s Cultural Revolution
David Harsanyi · June 2020 · nationalreview.com · 4 min
Noam Scheiber, Kate Conger · 18 February 2020 · nytimes.com · 34 min
The Great Racial Reckoning Has Begun. What Comes Next?
Tomi Obaro · buzzfeednews.com
Brooke Jarvis · 27 November 2018 · nytimes.com · 33 min
The privilege of boredom : Philosophy in isolation
Anil Gomes · the-tls.co.uk
Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?
Kate Julian · 12 November 2018 · theatlantic.com
J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues
jkrowling.com · 17 min
The Silence of the Never Facebookers
Ian Bogost · June 2020 · theatlantic.com · 8 min
Why filming police violence has done nothing to stop it
Ethan Zuckerman · 3 June 2020 · technologyreview.com · 5 min
We Are Watching History Unfold in Real Time
Charlie Warzel · 2 June 2020 · nytimes.com · 7 min
Thomas Chatterton Williams · 8 June 2020 · theguardian.com · 6 min
The Weaponization of Diversity
ancerj · 3 June 2020 · siliconhillslawyer.com · 31 min
Adrianne Jeffries · 26 February 2020 · themarkup.org · 7 min
Asian guys stereotyped and excluded in online dating
Yue Qian · theconversation.com · 5 min
2020 May
A scientist on the myth of ugly produce and food waste
Chavie Lieber · 2 February 2019 · vox.com · 9 min
The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature
William Cronon · williamcronon.net · 54 min
Drew Austin · reallifemag.com · 11 min
The Coronavirus Is Rewriting Our Imaginations
Kim Stanley Robinson · newyorker.com · 13 min
Animals Strike Curious Poses — Real Life
Neta Alexander, Bradley H. Kerr · reallifemag.com · 8 min
Uncovering the Secret History of Wall Street’s Largest Oil Trade
Javier Blas · 3 April 2017 · bloomberg.com
29 April 2020 · tbray.org · 5 min
2020 April
Please Stop Writing 'Why I Left New York' Pandemic Essays
Claire Fallon · huffpost.com · 7 min
2020 March
How some rescue dogs come from breeders at commercial auctions
Salwan Georges · washingtonpost.com
Ben Tarnoff · logicmag.io · 22 min
Dayna Tortorici · nplusonemag.com · 38 min
Jimmy Wu · communemag.com
Kelly Pendergrast · reallifemag.com · 16 min
The Forgotten Neoliberal Man of Parasite
March 2020 · askakorean.blogspot.com · 18 min
Ross Barkan · thebaffler.com · 16 min
Toril Moi · thepointmag.com · 27 min
Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
Molly Young · February 2020 · vulture.com · 19 min
An Artist Whose Muse Is Loneliness
Zoë Lescaze · 26 February 2020 · nytimes.com · 14 min
Molly Fischer, Fala Atelier · 2 March 2020 · thecut.com · 18 min
2020 February
Joshua Rothman · 13 January 2020 · newyorker.com · 23 min
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
David Brooks · March 2020 · theatlantic.com · 41 min
John Tierney · 4 October 2015 · nytimes.com · 10 min
The war on food waste is a waste of time
Austin Bryniarski · theoutline.com · 12 min
Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build
Conor Dougherty · 12 February 2020 · nytimes.com · 14 min
Why the media is so polarized — and how it polarizes us
Ezra Klein · 2 January 2020 · vox.com · 25 min
If God Is Dead, Your Time Is Everything
James Wood · 20 May 2019 · newyorker.com · 21 min
2020 January
The Pitfalls and the Potential of the New Minimalism
Jia Tolentino · 3 February 2020 · newyorker.com · 14 min
Asa Seresin · thenewinquiry.com · 13 min
Strangers When We Meet — Real Life
reallifemag.com · 13 min
[Reviews] Selective Hearing, by Hugh Eakin : Harper's Magazine
Hugh Eakin · February 2020 · harpers.org · 18 min
The Miseducation of the American Boy
Peggy Orenstein · January 2020 · theatlantic.com · 34 min
Who Wants to Play the Status Game?
Agnes Callard · thepointmag.com · 7 min
Luxury on the Installment Plan
Gaby Del Valle · thebaffler.com · 8 min
The sickening business of wellness
Yvette d’Entremont · theoutline.com · 16 min
Adam Frank · aeon.co · 15 min
Matthew Hodgson · 2 January 2020 · matrix.org · 6 min
2019 December
Beyond “Carceral Capitalism” - Los Angeles Review of Books
John W. W. Zeiser · lareviewofbooks.org · 27 min
Whitney Sha · thepointmag.com · 13 min
How busyness leads to bad decisions
Brigid Schulte · 2 December 2019 · bbc.com · 7 min
Can meditation really make the world a better place?
Ute Kreplin · aeon.co · 14 min
Emma Carmichael · 6 December 2019 · nytimes.com · 10 min
Forest for the Trees — Real Life
Rosa Boshier · reallifemag.com · 8 min
Paul Bloom · 27 November 2017 · newyorker.com · 13 min
2019 November
Julius Krein · November 2019 · americanaffairsjournal.org · 31 min
Weike Wang · 18 November 2019 · newyorker.com · 20 min
Why You Should Find Time to Be Alone With Yourself
Micaela Marini Higgs · 28 October 2019 · nytimes.com · 6 min
2019 October
What White Kids Learn About Race in School | Boston Review
Erik Loomis · bostonreview.net
What Made Me Reconsider the Anthropocene
Peter Brannen · October 2019 · theatlantic.com · 12 min
The Myth of a Wilderness Without Humans
Mark Dowie · thereader.mitpress.mit.edu · 13 min
Why the Left Can’t Stand The New York Times
Amber A’Lee Frost · cjr.org · 9 min
Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns
Bill McKibben · newyorker.com · 27 min
Games Economists Play | Boston Review
Marshall Steinbaum · bostonreview.net
Chad Harbach · November 2010 · slate.com · 27 min
Is There a Smarter Way to Think About Sexual Assault on Campus?
Jia Tolentino · 12 February 2018 · newyorker.com · 27 min
Rebecca Boyle · 23 September 2019 · theatlantic.com · 19 min
Gabriel Winant · 3 December 2017 · nplusonemag.com · 27 min
They Pretend To Be Us While Pretending We Don't Exist
Jenny Zhang · buzzfeed.com · 25 min
The New Patriarchy: How Trans Radicalism Hurts Women, Children—and Trans People Themselves
Helen Joyce · 4 December 2018 · quillette.com · 36 min
The Spiritual Crisis of the Modern Economy
Victor Tan Chen · December 2016 · theatlantic.com · 15 min
The magical thinking of guys who love logic
Aisling McCrea · theoutline.com · 14 min
How Do We Move Beyond Commodified Feminism?
Charlotte Shane · lithub.com · 32 min
Footnotes to Plato : Michel Foucault : To rise and resist – Deborah Cook
Deborah Cook · the-tls.co.uk
The return of Mao: a new threat to China’s politics
WassinkLundgren · ft.com
Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On
danah boyd · onezero.medium.com · 10 min
Privacy matters because it empowers us all
Carissa Veliz · aeon.co · 16 min
The Loneliness of the Progressive Asian American Christian
Liz Lin · thesaltcollective.org · 12 min
2019 September
Why a hipster, vegan, green start-up service economy lifestyle cannot be sustainable – Uneven Earth
Vijay Kolinjivadi, Daniel Horen Greenford · August 2019 · unevenearth.org · 18 min
Hakai Magazine · smithsonianmag.com · 15 min
Ian Parker · 6 February 2012 · newyorker.com · 56 min
Kelefa Sanneh · 19 August 2019 · newyorker.com · 20 min
Meme Wars: Why the racial future of America hinges upon Asian Americans
Wesley Yang · tabletmag.com · 13 min
Progress and its discontents | New Internationalist
Jason Hickel · 1 July 2019 · newint.org
What Does It Mean to ‘Look Like Me’?
Kwame Anthony Appiah · 21 September 2019 · nytimes.com · 6 min
Fashion gaffes are a reflection of the industry's diversity problem
Aileen Kwun · cnn.com · 11 min
Dan Barry · 11 October 2018 · nytimes.com · 43 min
Friction-Free Racism — Real Life
Chris Gilliard · reallifemag.com · 10 min
To be true to one’s self means changing to become that self
Kevin Tobia · aeon.co · 13 min
danah boyd · medium.com · 33 min
Ted Fertik · nplusonemag.com · 39 min
Emily Gould · September 2017 · thecut.com · 12 min
[Criticism] Good Bad Bad Good, by Adam Wilson : Harper's Magazine
Adam Wilson · October 2019 · harpers.org · 39 min
When the Culture War Comes for the Kids
George Packer · October 2019 · theatlantic.com · 48 min
Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters
Craig Mod · craigmod.com · 11 min
David Wootton · laphamsquarterly.org · 15 min
Roy Scranton · thebaffler.com · 17 min
Eula Biss · 6 December 2015 · nytimes.com · 16 min
The Moral Rot of the MIT Media Lab
Justin Peters · September 2019 · slate.com · 10 min
Charlie Tyson · thepointmag.com · 12 min
The Real Problem When It Comes to Diversity and Asian-Americans
Jack Linshi · time.com · 9 min
America’s underground Chinese restaurant workers.
Lauren Hilgers · 13 October 2014 · newyorker.com · 26 min
Frontline health workers were sidelined in $3.3bn fight against Ebola
Amy Maxmen · newsweek.com · 24 min
Mathew Snow · August 2015 · jacobin.com · 11 min
The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting
Claire Cain Miller · 25 December 2018 · nytimes.com · 10 min
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
anne helen · 4 January 2019 · buzzfeednews.com · 3 min
Drew Austin · reallifemag.com · 14 min
Olga Mecking · 29 April 2019 · nytimes.com · 5 min
Michael Musto · 5 March 2019 · longreads.com · 9 min
Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans? - The New York Times
Jay Caspian Kang · 28 August 2019 · nytimes.com
Tim Maudlin · bostonreview.net · 22 min
Dogs Are Not Here for Our Convenience
Alexandra Horowitz · 3 September 2019 · nytimes.com · 10 min
2019 August
Wendy Liu · logicmag.io · 10 min
Tim Kreider · 21 May 2019 · nytimes.com · 6 min
Dan Chiasson · 2 September 2019 · newyorker.com · 12 min
Do You Have to Be a Jerk to Be Great?
David Brooks · 29 July 2019 · nytimes.com · 4 min
Researchers Show How Europe's Data Protection Laws Can Dox People
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai · vice.com · 4 min
Why Philosophers Shouldn’t Sign Petitions
Agnes Callard · 13 August 2019 · nytimes.com · 7 min
'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
John Naughton · 20 January 2019 · theguardian.com · 19 min
The end of capitalism has begun
Paul Mason · 17 July 2015 · theguardian.com · 22 min
Kim Brooks · 17 August 2019 · nytimes.com · 5 min
I’m a Black Feminist. I Think Call-Out Culture Is Toxic.
Loretta Ross · 17 August 2019 · nytimes.com · 6 min
Morality and the Idea of Progress in Silicon Valley
A. Leydenfrost · 13 January 2015 · berkeleyjournal.org · 16 min
A.I. Is Learning From Humans. Many Humans.
Cade Metz · 16 August 2019 · nytimes.com · 14 min
Daniel Joseph · reallifemag.com · 13 min
Wesley Yang · May 2011 · nymag.com · 41 min
David A. Banks, Britney Gil · reallifemag.com · 11 min
The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis - Issue 74: Networks - N
Aubrey Clayton · nautil.us
2019 July
Engineers Don't Solve Problems
Dean Chahim · logicmag.io · 15 min
Is 'Progress' Good for Humanity?
Jeremy Caradonna · September 2014 · theatlantic.com · 7 min
The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim
Rosanna Xia · 6 July 2019 · latimes.com · 30 min
2019 May
Kelly Pendergrast · reallifemag.com · 13 min
Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Ethics — Real Life
Brian Justie · reallifemag.com · 16 min
Atul Gawande · 13 August 2012 · newyorker.com · 44 min
How phonies and self-promoters came to rule the world
Shelley Gare · 21 May 2019 · theage.com.au · 23 min
Frank Pasquale · reallifemag.com · 11 min
Chris Gayomali · gq.com · 25 min
The AI Supply Chain Runs on Ignorance
Sidney Fussell · May 2019 · theatlantic.com · 5 min
Drew Austin · reallifemag.com · 13 min
The Hidden Air Pollution in Our Homes
Nicola Twilley · 8 April 2019 · newyorker.com · 23 min
Peter Hessler · 12 October 2014 · newyorker.com · 34 min
2019 April
When Did Pop Culture Become Homework?
Soraya Roberts · 26 April 2019 · longreads.com · 8 min
Counting the Countless — Real Life
Os Keyes · reallifemag.com · 13 min
Let’s Take This Offline — Real Life
Mikaella Clements · reallifemag.com · 4 min
2018 July
Michael Marder · reallifemag.com · 8 min
2018 May
The Question of Cultural Appropriation
Briahna Joy Gray · September 2017 · currentaffairs.org · 17 min
What It’s Like to Be a Bot — Real Life
Damien Patrick Williams · reallifemag.com · 10 min
A Farewell to Fuckboys in the Age of Consent Culture
Minda Honey · 13 April 2018 · longreads.com · 23 min
The Moon Is Beautiful Tonight: On East Asian Narratives
Jianan Qian · April 2018 · themillions.com · 16 min
Does anyone have the right to sex?
Amia Srinivasan · 21 March 2018 · lrb.co.uk · 24 min
2018 January
Linda Besner · reallifemag.com · 13 min
Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection
Kiera Feldman · 3 January 2018 · propublica.org · 44 min
2017 December
A Generation in Japan Faces a Lonely Death
Norimitsu Onishi · 30 November 2017 · nytimes.com · 31 min
2017 October
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
Venkatesh Rao · 17 August 2017 · ribbonfarm.com · 33 min
2017 September
Navneet Alang · reallifemag.com · 10 min
2017 August
Bee Wilson · 11 August 2017 · theguardian.com · 26 min
Vicky Osterweil · reallifemag.com · 13 min
2017 July
Mourning the Low-Rent, Weirdo-Filled East Village of Old
Jeremiah Moss · 23 July 2017 · longreads.com · 32 min
2017 June
Female androids should be more than vengeful sexbots
Angelica Jade Bastién · theoutline.com · 10 min
2017 May
Eyes Without a Face — Real Life
Rahel Aima · reallifemag.com · 14 min
Andrew Kay · thepointmag.com · 18 min
Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League
William Deresiewicz · newrepublic.com · 19 min
2017 April
Durga Chew-Bose · thehairpin.com · 14 min
Anna Reser · reallifemag.com · 8 min
The secret rules of the internet
Catherine Buni, Soraya Chemaly · 1 April 2016 · theverge.com · 44 min
2017 March
Is it too late to save Hong Kong from Beijing’s authoritarian grasp?
Howard W French · 21 March 2017 · theguardian.com · 24 min
Adam Clair · reallifemag.com · 14 min
Nisse Greenberg · reallifemag.com · 18 min
2017 January
Innovation is overvalued. Maintenance often matters more
Andrew Russell · aeon.co · 13 min
2016 December
Eric Schlosser · newyorker.com · 28 min
Women’s Ways of Structuring Data
Christine L. Masters · scholarsbank.uoregon.edu · 15 min
2016 September
Ian Parker · 12 September 2016 · newyorker.com · 39 min
2016 August
Atul Gawande · 11 May 2015 · newyorker.com · 41 min
2016 July
In the Depths of the Digital Age
Edward Mendelson · 23 June 2016 · nybooks.com
Jess Zimmerman · hazlitt.net · 14 min
Why the Clinton America sees isn’t the Clinton colleagues know
Ezra Klein · vox.com · 28 min
Judith Shulevitz · 12 June 2016 · nytimes.com · 11 min
Thank You for Not Being Totally Worthless
Alexis Coe · lennyletter.com
The single most important fact about American politics
Ezra Klein · 1 June 2014 · vox.com · 10 min
Hanna Rosin · September 2012 · theatlantic.com · 19 min
2016 May
The Fierce Triumph of Loneliness
Helena Fitzgerald · catapult.co · 10 min
2015 November
Hanna Rosin · December 2015 · theatlantic.com · 38 min
2015 June
Michael Specter · 3 November 2014 · newyorker.com · 30 min