What I highlighted the week of February 1, 2021

Feb 6

Articles

This long interview with Zeynep Tüfekçi by Antonio Garcia-Martinez had lots of great details about Tüfekçi's approach to public science communication.
In The New Republic "Against the Consensus Approach to History" was mostly a walk-through of a specific approach to American Revolutionary history and, at the end, has a discussion about who gets to tell history "as it was."
This long-read in Eater about Black plant-based-eating introduced me to much of the plant-based culinary history among Black people in America.
This short Crooked Timber book review of Mike Konczal's new book has a great quote about markets:

“markets are great at distributing things based on people’s willingness to pay. But there are some goods that should be distributed by need.”
This Arnold Kling book review of a new book about trust in a polarized age resonated for me as I've been obsessing about low social and institutional trust. The review is mostly from a Libertarian perspective, but the lessons and discussion are relevant all the same.
"Barstool Conservatism" seems like a phrase I'll be thinking about and using for some time to come.
This long interview with Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut has many stories I've heard from Caro already but also has many lines that Vonnegut seems preternaturally capable at doling out off the cuff.