I’m still obsessed with Ukraine, and it’s certainly the most urgent thing in our world, but, since I’m grouping all the Ukraine stories together, I’m moving them from the beginning of the newsletter, where they take up a huge amount of space — often all the way to the point at…
Patriarchy: the upside A brief tweet thread by Twitter Phenomenon Wrath of Gnon on some lone founders who dedicated their lives to building important…
AI: is it coming for us? (No) Is it a big deal (Yes) This is an excellent podcast featuring an ‘industry expert’ and then someone who’s introduced as an…
Medical research fraud: who cares? [Whistleblowing researchers] have sent their concerns about more than 750 papers to the journals that published them…
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Casablanca as Plato's Symposium (Srsly!) Me at Troppo The first I saw or heard of Casablanca was at the beginning (and end) of Woody Allen’s “Play it…
Who is Nicholas Gruen and should we feed him? Tackling polarisation Thomas B. Edsall has an important writeup of research into reducing political…
Police Brutality Is Not Always About Race It’s strange that John McWhorter should be regarded as right-wing. He’s the kind of guy that in the US used to…
Martin Wolf on democratic capitalism (and me as it turns out!) When things got weirder with the election of Donald Trump and the triumph of the bizarre…
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