February 27, 2023: A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, how to win the war in Ukraine, Joe Biden’s sensible new border policies (11:15) and Nigeria’s scorpion trade (15:30).
Category Archives: Opinion
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – March 6, 2023
Can A.I. Treat Mental Illness?
New computer systems aim to peer inside our heads—and to help us fix what they find there.
The End of the English Major
Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?
Phosphorus Saved Our Way of Life—and Now Threatens to End It
Fertilizers filled with the nutrient boosted our ability to feed the planet. Today, they’re creating vast and growing dead zones in our lakes and seas.
Culture: New York Times Magazine – Feb 26, 2023
The New York Times Magazine – February 26, 2023:
Three Years Into Covid, We Still Don’t Know How to Talk About It
Most Americans think they know the story of the pandemic. But when a writer immersed himself in a Covid oral-history project, he realized how much we’re still missing.
‘The Democratic Party in New York Is a Disaster’
After losing crucial seats in the congressional midterms, a bitter civil war over the moribund state organization has spilled into the open.
Previews: The Economist Magazine – Feb 25, 2023
How to win the hot war in Ukraine and the cold war that will follow it
After a year of fighting, what comes next?
Culture/Politics: Harper’s Magazine – March 2023
Alternative Facts
How the media failed Julian Assange – Every year on the first of December, the Committee to Protect Journalists publishes its global prison census, documenting the number of journalists behind bars around the world. The 2022 edition set a grim record: 363 jailed journalists.
At Random
The business of books and the merger that wasn’t
Knights-Errant
Online chess reshapes the game of kings
Opinion: Inflation Stays High, Obi Remakes Nigeria, Male Contraception Pills
February 20, 2023: A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, why inflation will be hard to bring down, Peter Obi’s plans to transform Nigeria (9:55) and a promising step towards a male contraceptive pill (15:20).
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – Feb 27, 2023
It’s Time to Rethink the Idea of the “Indigenous”
Many groups who identify as Indigenous don’t claim to be first peoples; many who did come first don’t claim to be Indigenous. Can the concept escape its colonial past?
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s Minister of Chaos
As unrest roils the country, a controversial figure from the far right helps Benjamin Netanyahu hold on to power.
The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines
When the country’s mining industry collapsed, a criminal economy grew in its place, with thousands of men climbing into some of the deepest shafts in the world, searching for leftover gold.
Culture: New York Times Magazine – Feb 19, 2023
The New York Times Magazine – February 19, 2023:
Spirited Away to Miyazaki Land
What happens when the surreal imagination of the world’s greatest living animator, Hayao Miyazaki, is turned into a theme park?
Remaking Country’s Gender Politics, One Barroom Weeper at a Time
The Nashville songwriter Shane McAnally is behind many of country music’s No. 1 hits, which aren’t as straight as they seem.
Why Is Affirmative Action in Peril? One Man’s Decision.
How the landmark 1978 Supreme Court decision that upheld the practice may ultimately have set it on a path to being outlawed.
Previews: The Economist Magazine- Feb 18, 2023
Inflation will be harder to bring down than markets think
Investors are betting on good times. The likelier prospect is turbulence
Israel’s proposed legal reforms are a dreadful answer to a real problem
They will damage the country at home and abroad
The World Bank’s embattled chief steps down
David Malpass’s record is better than his many critics will credit
Opinion: Searching With Chatbots, Adani & India’s Capitalism, Lazy In France
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, how chatbots will influence the lucrative business of internet search, the parable of Adani (11:25) and why France is arguing about work, and the right to be lazy (19:50).
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