Newish: On flying cars (New Yorker), with podcast appearances on Search Engine and Plain English; on Jewish identity with and without Zionism (New Yorker); on two books about revolution (New Yorker); on Dan Ariely, Francesca Gino, and fraud in the behavioral sciences (New Yorker); on Michael Lewis’s SBF book (New Yorker); a dispatch from the SBF trial (New Yorker); on states and corporations as runaway machines (New Yorker); on dying patients who want experimental drugs (New Yorker); on olive oil in coffee (New Yorker); on surveillance in the trucking industry (New Yorker); on Francesco Costa and Italian politics (New Yorker); on Sam Bankman-Fried and EA complicity (New Yorker); on Will MacAskill and effective altruism (New Yorker); on Jonathan Haidt and the harms of social media (New Yorker); on a Chinese professor accused of being a spy (New Yorker); on an account of a Hasidic enclave (New Yorker); on the politics of behavior genetics (New Yorker); on the UFO renaissance (New Yorker), with an accompanying podcast (New Yorker Radio Hour) and a CNN appearance. On remembering Janet Malcolm (New Yorker). A follow-up about the UAP report (New Yorker), and an appearance on Chris Hayes’s podcast.
From 2013: on Janet Malcolm (Times Literary Supplement).
Recent: on one entrepreneur’s at-home Covid test (New Yorker); 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 married couple separated by the travel ban (New York Times Magazine); on a walk-in storefront private-jet dealership (New York Times Magazine).
