Longform links: strong privacy
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Books
- Insights from Nadia Asparouhova’s new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading.” (newyorker.com)
- A Q&A with Rutger Breman, author of “Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference.” (nytimes.com)
Industry
- Whether they want to or not, every country has to reckon with China's industrial policy. (on.ft.com)
- Why America stopped making ships. (theatlantic.com)
AI
Russia
- Nataliya Gumenyuk, "Ukraine’s innovation in unmanned aerial systems is a homegrown response to an asymmetrical war." (theatlantic.com)
- How Russian oligarchs successfully hid their mega-yachts and why they are now likely in the clear. (nytimes.com)
Emoluments
- David Frum, "Today, the United States is rich and powerful. Rather than wait for a foreign government to offer emoluments, a corrupt U.S. president can extract them." (theatlantic.com)
- Evan Osnos, "The Trump Presidency has embraced an unusually open marriage of politics and profit." (newyorker.com)
Literature
- Silicon Valley types love 'The Lord of the Rings' books, too bad they misunderstand them. (nytimes.com)
- Enough with the 'hero's journey' people. The case for something new. (aeon.co)
Longreads
- Adam Serwer, "The book burnings of the past had physical limitations; after all, only the books themselves could be destroyed. The Trumpist attack on knowledge, by contrast, threatens not just accumulated knowledge, but also the ability to collect such knowledge in the future." (theatlantic.com)
- How living in a high cost state affects retirement security. (crr.bc.edu)
- How to become the best fantasy football player in the world. (rollingstone.com)
- Why North America speaks English, not French. (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
