Longform links: intellectual humility
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Books
- An excerpt from "The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time―and How to Fix It" by Annie Lowrey. (theatlantic.com)
- Kai Bird’s "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey From Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump" explains a lot. (slate.com)
- An excerpt from “The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth: How a Nineteenth-Century Novelist Taught the World Economics” by Jeanna Smialek. (nytimes.com)
- An excerpt from "Ausländer: One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile" by Michael Moritz. (colossus.com)
- An excerpt from “The Playbook: The Hidden Forces Shaping Winners and Losers in the Modern NFL” by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg. (wsj.com)
Business
- Joseph Lawler, "No one will ever cherish a plot of land as much as someone who has a long-term ownership and residence interest in it." (thenewatlantis.com)
- If England can tame the East India Company, the U.S. can tame tech companies. (nytimes.com)
- Dolly Parton managed her businesses with great skill. (wsj.com)
Politics
- The federal government is effectively at war with the state of Minnesota. (newyorker.com)
- Offshore clipping services provide a steady stream of videos in support of the GOP. (theatlantic.com)
Longreads
- How the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is supposed to work. (construction-physics.com)
- We can safely sacrifice mosquito species that prey on humans. (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
- Group chats are the last refuge for online sociability. (newyorker.com)
- Can you get ahead in America today without wealthy parents? (abnormalreturns.com)
- What happens when vaccine denial crashes into a custody dispute. (newyorker.com)
- A profile of champion ultra-marathon runner Rachel Entrekin. (runnersworld.com)
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