What I’ve Been Reading the Past 2 Months.
Last one for 2011. Probably won’t do these big compilations next year and will instead rapidfire them out, one-by-one, as I come across the good ones.
I think long-form journalism is the only way out for news publishers given that the news cycle is a commodity. This year proves how much really good stuff is out there. On an unrelated note, I killed my Wired and Economist subscriptions this year. So maybe there is no way out except for the top of the Vanity Fair, New Yorker, n+1, etcetera-heap. Kinda sad.
- Todd Purdum on our National Security apparatus.
- Joseph Stiglitz, former Chief Economist of The World Bank, on how the banking system should serve society, not the other way around.
- Inside the Secret Service.
- Williams College’s Retired #50.
- Can the Bulldog Be Saved? TL;DR — No :(
- Hipster Bros Go To Tokyo. I’m a sucker for anything James Murphy.
- Homegrown Terror. On Najibullah Zazi’s conversion to radicalism and the close call the US had with his attempted NYC attack.
- The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami.
- The Once and Future Way to Run. I now run quasi-barefoot. Fully converting next year.
- The Romney Economy. Photochop is kinda relevant.
- The Woman Who Knew Too Much. Great profile of Elizabeth Warren.
- Great profile of Bill Nguyen, the dude who founded Lala and the ill-fated Color. Sounds like a nightmare to work for.
