Longform links: schemers and sycophants
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
2 days ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- An excerpt from “The Inner Compass” by Lawrence Yeo. (moretothat.com)
- An excerpt from “How to Live in the Future” by Michael Garfield. (aeon.co)
- Christine Driscoll talks with Christine Wenc, author of “Funny Because It’s True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire.” (annehelen.substack.com)
- An excerpt from “An Exercise in Uncertainty: A Memoir of Illness and Hope” by Jonathan Gluck. (esquire.com)
Defense
- The next war will involve (a lot) of drones. (newyorker.com)
- Every country needs more interceptors. (axios.com)
- The U.S. military is behind in drones. (nytimes.com)
Technology
- Smartphones kick all sorts of data for intelligence agencies to exploit. (wapo.st)
- Can AI help decipher ancient languages? (longnow.org)
Policy
- The administration is in an open war with research universities. (liberalcurrents.com)
- Weather data is a public good. Private forecasters can only do so much. (nytimes.com)
Policing
- The number of police-related killings in rural America are on the rise. (wsj.com)
- Meet the grassroots resistance to ICE. (rollingstone.com)
Art
- Lisa Borst, “Novels are better than television, but the surest way to make money from novels is to write with television in mind — and this is a paradox to which novels themselves are increasingly attuned.” (nplusonemag.com)
- You should always be skeptical about the veracity of memoirs. (theguardian.com)
Longreads
- How Greece’s economy bounced back. (on.ft.com)
- An investment in human capital is the defense against foreign competition. (agglomerations.substack.com)
- We need to understand why the Baby Boom happened if we are going to have another one. (derekthompson.org)
- The diamond industry is crumbling before our very eyes. (wsj.com)
- The business of exotic animals isn’t going anywhere. (slate.com)
- Another example of an influencer who fooled the public. (nytimes.com)
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