A pretty narrow selection this week. Use the comments to let me and the world know what I missed.
Ryan Avent in the Guardian on how the digital revolution is linked to rising nationalism:
"Moderate reformers will find themselves losing ground to politicians keen to unpick elements of the era of moderation ..."
Related, Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian on the UK Tory government's sharp swerve into populism:
"The only instruction the British people gave on 23 June was to leave the European Union. They did not issue an edict demanding the most extreme rupture possible..."
Adam Phillips in the Guardian on how we lose out by solidifying our sense of self:
"Taste is problematic when it is a militant and aggressive narrowing of the mind..."
Alberto Nardelli for Buzzfeed on how common extremism now is in Europe:
"Almost half of the adults in 12 European countries now hold anti-immigrant, nationalist views..."
Tim Harford in the FT on the efficiency of being disorganised:
"Your desk may look messy to other people but you know that, thanks to the LRU rule, it’s really an efficient self-organising rapid-access cache."
How to tell if you're foreign, by The Poke:
"Democracy is a key British value, and democracy means that the majority can vote to strip rights from the minority..."
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Sunday, 9 October 2016
Saturday, 24 September 2016
This week's best reads #3
Italy's anti-establisment - or is he? - PM Matteo Renzi profiled in Vogue:
"We sat with our coffees under the gaze of a stuffed owl Renzi placed on a marble end table to remind himself that his many enemies are always watching. Renzi has no shortage of them."
Ross Douthat for the NYT on how blanket cultural liberalism is affecting US politics:
"Among millennials, especially, there’s a growing constituency for whom right-wing ideas are so alien or triggering, left-wing orthodoxy so pervasive and unquestioned, that supporting a candidate like Hillary Clinton looks like a needless form of compromise."
Peter Beinart for The Atlantic on how American news is finally calling bullshit:
"Last Saturday, The New York Times published an extraordinary story. What made the story extraordinary wasn’t the event the Times covered. What made it extraordinary was the way the Times covered it."
The FT on how Swiss relations with Brussels affect the UK and vice-versa:
"Mr Blocher has suggested blocking access to the new 57km rail tunnel under the Gotthard mountain — the longest in the world — if its dispute with Brussels escalates."
Alfie Brown for LSE on how a new book on Dennis Hopper goes straight for what really matters:
"French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan started his project from the central belief that the discourses of structuralism and other philosophical models had always failed to account for one thing: enjoyment."
Hitchhiker "goes Berserk" after four days without a lift:
“He was a spoilt millennial, and he created a hell of a din. But all that time he was standing in the wrong place to hitchhike – a corner with poor visibility and nowhere for cars to easily pull over.”
"We sat with our coffees under the gaze of a stuffed owl Renzi placed on a marble end table to remind himself that his many enemies are always watching. Renzi has no shortage of them."
Ross Douthat for the NYT on how blanket cultural liberalism is affecting US politics:
"Among millennials, especially, there’s a growing constituency for whom right-wing ideas are so alien or triggering, left-wing orthodoxy so pervasive and unquestioned, that supporting a candidate like Hillary Clinton looks like a needless form of compromise."
Peter Beinart for The Atlantic on how American news is finally calling bullshit:
"Last Saturday, The New York Times published an extraordinary story. What made the story extraordinary wasn’t the event the Times covered. What made it extraordinary was the way the Times covered it."
The FT on how Swiss relations with Brussels affect the UK and vice-versa:
"Mr Blocher has suggested blocking access to the new 57km rail tunnel under the Gotthard mountain — the longest in the world — if its dispute with Brussels escalates."
Alfie Brown for LSE on how a new book on Dennis Hopper goes straight for what really matters:
"French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan started his project from the central belief that the discourses of structuralism and other philosophical models had always failed to account for one thing: enjoyment."
Hitchhiker "goes Berserk" after four days without a lift:
“He was a spoilt millennial, and he created a hell of a din. But all that time he was standing in the wrong place to hitchhike – a corner with poor visibility and nowhere for cars to easily pull over.”
Saturday, 17 September 2016
This week's best reads #2
Ryan Health on what it was like being a speechwriter for a European Commission president
David Allen Green on how it's not only the UK government that doesn't know what it wants from Brexit
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi on why Europe needs supranational rather than intergovernmental solutions
Alex King for Huck Magazine on how Greeks are making the best of their crisis
Anahad O'Connor for The NYT on how the sugar industry diverted health concerns elsewhere
David Allen Green on how it's not only the UK government that doesn't know what it wants from Brexit
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi on why Europe needs supranational rather than intergovernmental solutions
Alex King for Huck Magazine on how Greeks are making the best of their crisis
Anahad O'Connor for The NYT on how the sugar industry diverted health concerns elsewhere
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