How To Read the News
"People who were paid to produce knowledge generated instead a lasting ignorance.”
Tempo: May 19, 2019
J. Matt on the heart-stopping scale of the Camp Fire cleanup; Molly Fisk, who lives nearby, visited the scene of the fire; Trevor Alixopulos examines damage control from within, rather than without.
Jack Pendarvis’s Moby-Dick
“Just take a look at Captain Ahab before you decide, because I’m talkin’ about a guy whose leg was bitten off.”
A Sea Goddess Told Me to Destroy the World
Gou’s claim that his run was ordained by Mazu was a calculated political move.
Krankmeldung (that is, a Doctor’s Note)
When I told my German friends that I’d been hired by Amazon, their responses were negative. But I doubted them; how bad could it be?
Tempo: May 12, 2019
Lorenzo Andolfatto on China's "soft" interrogations of ordinary people; a first-hand account of such an interrogation; Magunga Williams's reminiscences of a former colleague in Nairobi.
