Longform links: the intention of the author
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
1 day ago
2 MIN READ
Book excerpts
- An excerpt from Elie Honig’s new book “When You Come at the King: Inside DOJ’s Pursuit of the President, From Nixon to Trump.” (nymag.com)
- An excerpt from “Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism” by Glory M. Liu . (wsj.com)
- An excerpt from Stefan Fatsis’s new book, “Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary.” (theatlantic.com)
Author Q&As
- A Q&A with Cass Sunstein, author of “On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom.” (bigthink.com)
- A Q&A with Mary Roach, author of “Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy.” (npr.org)
- A Q&A with Michael Grunwald, author of “We’re Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System.” (motherjones.com)
- A Q&A with Shoshana Walter, author of “Rehab: An American Scandal.” (annehelen.substack.com)
Cities
- There is no practical way to move around New York City and avoid being tracked by cameras. (nytimes.com)
- The science of population density or how cities formed. (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
Commodities
- Fracking is literally shifting the ground in West Texas and and New Mexico. (bloomberg.com)
- It’s easy to forget how messy it is to extract gold from underground. (sapiens.org)
History
- An engineering history of the Manhattan Project. (construction-physics.com)
- What does it even mean to apologize for centuries-old wrongs? (newyorker.com)
- How Britain banned slavery. (marginalrevolution.com)
Longreads
- The UAE got access to advanced chips. The Trump family got $2 billion in World Liberty Financial. (nytimes.com)
- The earliest climate models highlighted the dangers of rising CO2 levels. (quantamagazine.org)
- Oklahoma’s medical marijuana business is in shambles. (politico.com)
- How BrainCo, backed by China, has been harvesting brain data from elite athletes. (hntrbrk.com)
- Fanatics and Panini are battle for supremacy in the trading card market. (wapo.st)
- How Judd Apatow became central to the American comedy scene. (theatlantic.com)
- You can now buy self-defense insurance. (newyorker.com)
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