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Dana Milbank in The Washington Post:| 3 Quarks Daily
Beth Baltzan in American Affairs: Adam Smith is often considered a libertarian icon. For that, we have Milton Friedman to thank, at least in part. Unlike the more balanced take of his Chicago School predecessors, Friedman portrayed Smith as something of a free market extremist. Friedman’s approach sparked a counterattack by scholars determined to reclaim the nuance…| 3 Quarks Daily
Andrei Kolesnikov in Public Seminar: In the age of mature Putinism, violence and control, accompanied by a new morality based on so-called “traditional values,” have become crucial instruments for managing Russian society. The use of the education system and cultural institutions to indoctrinate the population—above all young people—is a form of violence, only intellectual rather…| 3 Quarks Daily
William J. Long in The Immanent Frame: Democracies today face turbulent times. Populism, polarization, and entrenched inequality threaten their foundations, while authoritarianism continues to rise—democracy has declined for 18 consecutive years. In this climate of division, democratic governments increasingly struggle to make decisions that are both legitimate and widely accepted. In academic circles, many theorists promote deliberation…| 3 Quarks Daily
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Karl Ove Knausgaard in The New Yorker 100: Fyodor Dostoyevsky began to write what would become his last novel, “The Brothers Karamazov,” in 1878. It was published in serial installments in the magazine Russkiy Vestnik from January, 1879, to November, 1880. Dostoyevsky had a deadline to meet every month, and his wife, Anna, later complained about the pressure…| 3 Quarks Daily
Peter Attia in PA Newsletter: “Magic mushrooms”—long used by Indigenous communities in ceremonial contexts and popularized during the psychedelic heyday of the 1960s—are once again entering the mainstream, in large part for the potential clinical applications of their psychoactive component, psilocybin. Though scientific interest has thus far mainly focused on the use of psilocybin for treating psychiatric conditions…| 3 Quarks Daily
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Snow Falls From Then to Now Pluvius couldn’t make up his mind between snow and rain – so he sent small snow, small rain together. A small quiet joined them, so dog and I walked with all three, a little wet, a little white, a little inward. Last night, when I rose to comfort him…| 3 Quarks Daily
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by Peter Topolewski Isn’t it time we talk about you? You. A collection in the realm of 4.5 x 10^27 atoms. A portion of your hydrogen and helium atoms originated in the Big Bang, 14 billion years ago. The heavier elements in you, the stuff of life, the carbon and nitrogen, they came from stars.…| 3 Quarks Daily
Dwight Garner in the New York Times: Schiff estimates Updike typed some 25,000 letters and postcards over the course of his life. He neglected to keep carbons and used whatever paper was handy. (“I am pleased to see we share a lack of official stationeries,” he wrote to Alice Munro in 2006, reveling in the…| 3 Quarks Daily
Steve Nadis in Quanta: In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the University of California, Berkeley, George Dantzig — a first-year graduate student — copied two problems off the blackboard, thinking they were a homework assignment. He found the homework “harder to do than usual,” he would later recount, and apologized to…| 3 Quarks Daily
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Jacqueline Detwiler-George at Popular Mechanics: Trace evidence analysis is the most versatile of the crime scene disciplines, requiring a specialist to be ready for whatever comes through the door. Officially, a trace analyst handles anything that doesn’t fit into the other standard crime lab departments, which tend to include body fluids (also known as serology),…| 3 Quarks Daily
Barry Schwabsky at The Nation: What made Clark’s appearance in the guise of an art critic an event was not just his already existing eminence as an art historian. Nor was it the fact that Clark is one of the rare art historians who has forged a style for his writing, by which I mean that he…| 3 Quarks Daily
Mythili Rao in The Guardian: Lying in her Birmingham hospital bed in the weeks after she’d been shot in the head by a Taliban assassin, 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai used to imagine the conversation she would have with Taliban leadership. “If they would just sit down with me … I could reason with them and convince them to end their reign of…| 3 Quarks Daily
Sam Dembling at n+1: Michael Hurley, the godfather of freak folk, died in April. Now we have his last, posthumous album, which was released in September and offers a final occasion to look back at his contributions, always arriving slightly aslant, to folk music history. An outsider artist but no museum-room oddity, Hurley was an authentic…| 3 Quarks Daily
The Forest is Burning in the Palm of My Hand My son comes running across acres of grass. He is twenty-seven years old. He is eleven years old. He is four years old. He turns his hand up to show me the distant inner glow, smoke drifting from him. He wants to see so I…| 3 Quarks Daily
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by Kevin LivelyOne often used metric by which the 'complexity' of societies is judged, is the level of logistic sophistication with which they self-propagate.| 3 Quarks Daily
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This Only A valley and above it forests in autumn colors. A voyager arrives, a map leads him there. Or Perhaps memory. Once long ago in the sun, When snow| 3 Quarks Daily
Francis Fukuyama at Persuasion:| 3 Quarks Daily
Guess what this is, sitting on a counter in my office.| 3 Quarks Daily
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by John Allen PaulosElection season has put an increased focus on the stock market, but little attention is ever paid to the Efficient Market Hypothesis (the| 3 Quarks Daily
