Recent: On the phenomenon of global fertility decline; on a book by Palantir’s CEO; on Atossa Abrahamian’s “The Hidden Globe”; on a Bitcoin documentary; on a resolution of Francesca Gino scandal; on the little magazine Jewish Currents; on flying cars, with podcast appearances on Search Engine and Plain English; on Jewish identity with and without Zionism; on Dan Ariely, Francesca Gino, and fraud in the behavioral sciences; on Michael Lewis’s SBF book; a dispatch from the SBF trial; on states and corporations as runaway machines; on dying patients who want experimental drugs; on olive oil in coffee; on Francesco Costa and Italian politics; on Sam Bankman-Fried and EA complicity; on Will MacAskill and effective altruism; on Jonathan Haidt and the harms of social media; on a Chinese professor accused of being a spy; on an account of a Hasidic enclave; on the politics of behavior genetics; on the UFO renaissance, with an accompanying podcast (New Yorker Radio Hour), a CNN appearance, and an appearance on Chris Hayes’s podcast. On remembering Janet Malcolm.
From 2013: on Janet Malcolm (Times Literary Supplement).
Less recent: on Slate Star Codex and the New York Times (New Yorker); on the pandemic and ‘social trust’ (Wired); on Ezra Klein, Rene Girard, and polarization (Wired); on Michael Apted on the occasion of “63 Up” (New York Times Magazine); on the controversial rise of the study of ancient DNA (New York Times Magazine); on Tezos, a blockchain love/horror story (Wired); on a walk-in storefront private-jet dealership (New York Times Magazine).
