I have trouble keeping up with all links to great long-form journalism and essays that stream past every day, but here are my favourites (out of the ones I managed to catch and read and either remember or save (thank you Longreads & Instapaper)). In not much of an order: How the Internet gets inside us, Adam [...]
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I just reached 5130 words on a blog post… a little to long to still qualify as a “blog post,” methinks. It’s an essay really, but still long enough I should explain. When I’m writing an essay, I often start adding a sentence or a paragraph in the middle or close to the start, and [...]
Yesterday I dealt briefly with the long- vs. short-run looking forward. Today I want to deal with the long- vs. short-run looking back. We are always in a zone of imperfect visability so far as the history just over our shoulder is concerned. It is as if we were in the hollow of the historical [...]
Based on composure and general impression, Obama appeared to be out of his depth in the debate. He seemed to lack confidence and was too defensive. Of course Obama isn’t out of his depth at all — not even close – and the debate was the first time in a month that McCain hasn’t appeared to be the weaker candidate. Based [...]
