Friday morning links for you all.  A good start to the weekend.

Nice interview with Michael Lewis, one of my favorite non-fiction writers today, and also the author of an exceptional podcast I...

Maybe I'll go a whole work week with a post every day!  (This should make you ask: what am I avoiding doing? Answer: many things.)

I like this, a nice nuanced discussion of the complications in...

Just a few!

Really fine piece on jokes, the nature of online intimacy, and Twitter.  “The mechanism for context-shredding is built directly into Twitter. It’s the retweets.”  Worth reading for...

Another day, another chain.

Very interesting: “elite institutions like prize committees aren’t representative or innovative. They have a generally mediocre, if not poor, record of recognizing...

It's Monday so here are some links to start your day off right.

Nice long interview with playwright Will Arbery, author of “Heroes of the Fourth Turning”.

This is a good piece on the NYT Haiti...

Two days in a row...that's pretty good.

Great piece about the making of the movie All the President’s Men, on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in.  Such a great movie; just showed it to...

Upon reflection, my previous post's title seems a bit premature. ;)

It turns out my June was just about as busy as my May had been--a mix of personal & professional things.  My apologies, I had...

Sorry for this long hiatus--I had thought I would be back up to regular posting a couple weeks ago.  But then bourgeois life intervened; our house (the physical house not the metaphorical one) had a...

Again, nothing exciting, just some stuff I've read that seems interesting.

Jan-Werner Müller on Germany's predicament after Putin's invasion of Ukraine.  Good:

“This should be the hour of...

I'm back!  I've been on a twelve-day trip across two continents and three countries--the UK, Germany, and Texas.  Now I'm in Dallas-Fort Worth airport, waiting for a flight home.  It feels like the...