Steve Reads

I see that the accused murderer of Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, is about to go on trial.

Cut it out.

Amazon obviously doesn’t need my endorsement; they’d be doing fine even if I never said that #actually they’re pretty good.

I would say that among my demographic, the primary attitude toward the United States is doomerism: everything sucks, Trump showed that the country is filled with fascists, our best days are behind us, etc.

I feel like people who grew up with today’s Internet—even some older folks—aren’t aware of what we had to do back in the day if we wanted to consume “porn.”

This is really just my way of endorsing, from whichever mountaintop I’m able to yell it from, the book A Mathematician’s Lament.

Hello everyone!

There’s a weird disconnect between the most widely read of Max Weber’s works, and what I understand to be the most influential.

I’m working backwards through my podcast queue, having for a couple reasons developed quite a backlog, so I just got to Ezra Klein’s discussion with Yascha Mounk about whether American democracy is in decline.

Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs Combines a popularization of some economic theory—of the sort that you’d read in Fujita, Krugman, and Venables, for instance—with the sort of boilerplate that you’d expect out of any popular work of economics nowa…