The Tangled Woof

(This post reproduces a thread I wrote on Twitter/X on July 29.)

Another good year for music.

Here are the most memorable of the books I read this year, listed in roughly the order I read them.

Reading China’s five-year plans, one of the most immediately striking things is just how many things they attempt to plan.

The first people you meet in life are your parents.

Two things happened this year to convince me to do some more intentional listening to Indian classical music, which I had long been aware of but had never really “got.”

After doing a round of India-China comparisons that focused on commonly cited macro indicators like manufacturing, investment and literacy (see last month’s post “India and the invidious comparison with China“), I wanted to highlight a lower-profile but p…

I recently wrote a piece at my job, and somewhat unusually for us, it’s come out from behind the paywall so that everyone can read it.

Around my trip to India I did some not-very-systematic reading, and had pretty good luck.

In June I went to India for the first time.