March 6, 2023: A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, how to cure obesity, Ron DeSantis’s foreign policy doctrine (10:53) and why hype can help and hinder entrepreneurs (17:00).
Category Archives: Opinion
Previews: The Atlantic Magazine – April 2023
The New Anarchy
America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.
The Book That Teaches Us to Live With Our Fears
Wolfish explores the question of what, exactly, we perceive as threats.
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – March 13, 2023
How Russian Journalists in Exile Are Covering the War in Ukraine
Dozens of media outlets have fled to the capital of Latvia, only to encounter a distrustful public and a set of strictly enforced laws and regulations.
Biomilq and the New Science of Artificial Breast Milk
The biotech industry takes on infant nutrition.
Why We Never Have Enough Time
In her new book, Jenny Odell argues that structural forces have commodified our moments, days, and years. Can our lost time be reclaimed?
Culture: New York Times Magazine – March 5, 2023
The New York Times Magazine – March 5, 2023:
‘Nobody Wants to Be the World’s Villain’
Inside the Louisville Police Department, where officers are reckoning with what it means to be a cop in a city that doesn’t trust them.
This Revolutionary Stroke Treatment Will Save Millions of Lives. Eventually.
A procedure called EVT is creating radically better outcomes for patients, but only when it’s performed quickly enough — and that requires the transformation of an entire system of care.
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Previews: The Economist Magazine – March 4, 2023
This week’s worldwide cover celebrates the new drugs promising an end to the world’s obesity epidemic. They could bring riches for their makers, savings for health systems and better lives for millions.
New drugs could spell an end to the world’s obesity epidemic
The long-term effects must be carefully studied. But the excitement is justified
The new Brexit deal is the best Britain can expect. Support it
Both the Tories and the Democratic Unionist Party should get behind the new agreement with the EU
Delta force
Is Bangladesh’s admired growth model coming unstuck?
A development superstar faces malign politics and rising corruption
The tech slump is encouraging venture capital to rediscover old ways
Small, profitable firms in strategic industries are now all the rage
Culture & Politics: The Drift – February 28, 2023
The Drift Magazine – February 28, 2023 Issue – We called it heterosexual oppression. Like replacing a piece of your skull with a smartwatch.
Electric Bodies | Medical Technology Takes Over
Through a growing focus on healthcare monitoring in recent years, Apple has positioned its wearables as essential accessories for the technophile and the casual hypochondriac alike.
Like so many other predictions of collapse, exaggerated. Methylphenidate for Miriam. Two executives showed up for a meeting dressed as Woody and Buzz Lightyear. A source of revolutionary Marxist critiques, an outright conservative, a peddler of flimsy conspiracy theories. Some days I am so filled with myself I can see nothing. I am not going to apologize for the empire, for our history. Bravissima! Stealth, he kept no socials. She had martini-glass tits. In this city every boy is an isotope. Enter among the truly civilized peoples. Cruising for difference. The body of a bear, the nose of an elephant, the paws of a tiger, the tail of an ox, and needle-like hairs. Wainscoting for an all-knowing liberalism. How can a narrow regional tabloid claim itself The World? The surrealist didn’t prescribe life-sized butter ears. Spend how you want the sixtyish years you have left of your life.
Words Exchanged | Italophone Somalia, Then and Now
“Italian language teaching is back in Somalia!” the Italian embassy in Somalia tweeted in late September 2021, announcing a new program at the Somali National University that would reintroduce the language of the country’s former colonizer.
Opinion: How Ukraine War Is Won, New Biden Border Policy, Nigeria Scorpions
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).
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?
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